Character Quotes

• If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • School
  • Character
  • Church

• When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

  

  John Sandford
  • People
  • Character

• Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

  

  George Saunders
  • Character
  • Moments
  • Explain

• An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

  

  Lorrie Moore
  • Life
  • Different
  • Author

• I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

  

  David Walton
  • Character
  • Words
  • Moments

• Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Character
  • Movie

• I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Character
  • Proud

• You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep your character interesting.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Interesting
  • Creative
  • Juice

• One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.

  

  John Wells
  • Up
  • Great
  • American

• Character is more important than talent.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Important
  • Character

• The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Light

• I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut.

  

  Jamie Blackley
  • Character

• I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Real
  • Character

• I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Stories

• Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Character

• 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).

  

  David Plotz
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Found

• Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.

  

  William George Jordan
  • Appetite
  • Digestion
  • Certificates

• The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Character

• Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Law
  • Slavery
  • Order

• If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

  

  William Bennett
  • Children
  • Admire
  • Admiration

• I've been a character artiste for four decades, and in our job, we learn very early that it doesn't pay to be narcissistic.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • Character
  • Job
  • Narcissistic

• If it is a clich to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Build
  • Athletics
  • Clich

• You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

  

  Jon Lovitz
  • Character
  • Funny

• The minute I know it's real to the minute we start shooting, I will work on the script, breaking it down and working on the character, doing as much research as I possibly can to the point where I feel like I eat, sleep and breathe it without looking at a page. Then I go in and try to forget all of it and just be there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Work
  • Real
  • Sleep

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