Character Quotes
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I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.
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Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
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I will never use swear words unless they're necessary and unless I feel that is what the character would have said in those circumstances."
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I didn't decide to be a character actress.
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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.
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The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.
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Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
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I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.
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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.
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All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.
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Kids search for what's relevant, what connects with their life... now. They know bad things happen like Hurricane Katrina. Through character driven stories, they explore what it's like to survive, thrive, and become more themselves.
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Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
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There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
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Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
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The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).
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No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.
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When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about the character, and then you can fill in the gaps. When you are doing a cabaret show, it's very personal. You have the opportunity to share parts of yourself with an audience and figure out how you want to connect.
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I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.
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There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.
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The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
