Character Quotes

• You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Hope

• With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

  

  Tony Scott
  • World
  • Different
  • Goal

• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

  

  William Godwin
  • War
  • Revolution
  • Liberty

• He had become a character in a play, same story, over and over.

  

  Ari Berk
  • Character
  • Story
  • Over And Over

• 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

• Yeah, I am a character actor.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Yeah

• If a subordinate performs a task and the outcome is not what you expected, don’t attack their intelligence or their character. Politely explain the deficiencies and offer an idea for a solution. Subordinates quickly lose respect for any leader who is “all problem and no solution.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Intelligence
  • Outcome
  • Performs

• The thing I love about these Star Wars characters is that I kind of believe we're all just stewards, temporary caretakers. Darth Maul is Ray Park and Peter Serafinowicz voicing Ray Park, but mostly I think that presence on the screen, that's what Darth Maul is. When you watch Clone Wars and you watch Rebels, I am contributing to that presence and that character. Sometime in the future, if I'm not right for it and someone else steps in because there's some move for that character, I completely accept that. I contributed.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Believe
  • War
  • Moving

• Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Acting
  • Ability
  • Create

• The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Talking

• I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

  

  Amy Carlson
  • People
  • Character

• I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

  

  John Cena
  • Character

• If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.

  

  George Washington
  • Found
  • Mankind
  • Motive

• The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Growing

• I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• Work is where we build character. Work is where we create value with our lives and lift up our own souls. Work, properly understood, is the sacred practice of offering up our talents for the service of others.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Value
  • Create
  • Souls

• I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried to do here, and in every other version, is to be true to the character and the Adams' tone and approach to narrative, his unique brand of word-play and "idea-play" humor.

  

  Arvind Ethan David
  • Ideas
  • Unique
  • Genius

• I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

  

  Jay Ellis
  • Character
  • Girl

• I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Music
  • Character

• Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.

  

  Arthur Trudeau
  • Character
  • Best
  • Strivings

• I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Fiction

• It was a wonderful project to work on, and a very different character for me.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Work
  • Different
  • Project

• I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • People
  • Terrible
  • Payment

• One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Character
  • Power
  • Locate

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