Character Quotes
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
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I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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Character matters; leadership descends from character.
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People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.
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The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
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I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.
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I learned that the acting I really like is when the actors did a lot of bringing themselves, and where they're at at the moment, to the character.
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In a novel there's not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me.
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The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
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I absolutely love Aquaman, and the character has been a passion since 'Blackest Night.'
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My characters are galley slaves.
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Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
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Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.
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Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.
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To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
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I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.
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I don't really rehearse, because I don't really step into action until I'm forced to. The only way I prepare is just by memorizing it backward and forward so that when I get in the room, I can become the character and not think about the lines so much.
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To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.
