Character Quotes
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And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.
Jenna Elfman
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I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
Alan Alda
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
Charisma Carpenter
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There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
Khandi Alexander
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If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.
John Marshall
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It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
Anson Mount
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Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
Nell Freudenberger
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To disband the armies and destroy the forts, to diffuse love and brotherhood, and peace and justice in the place of war and strife, could tend only to the buidling up of character, the elevation of the soul, and the strength and well-being of the state.
Clarence Darrow
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Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
Michael Zaslow
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Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
Carol Channing
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In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.
Dennis Haysbert
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Food is important in working out a character. How she eats is a window into her temperament. If I think she likes her food, I'll put on a few pounds, or lose a few if she lives on her nerves.
Maxine Peake
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Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.
William Emerson Arnett
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Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."
Robert Baden-Powell
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The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.
Aaron Korsh
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If you judge the character, you cant play it.
Alan Rickman
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Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.
Louisa Hall
