Character Quotes

• I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.

  

  Alison Doody
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Book
  • Help

• I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Star

• I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Music
  • Character
  • King

• I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Live
  • Happy

• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Grow Up

• Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Purpose

• There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Change
  • Myself
  • Explore

• Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

  

  Brendan Fraser
  • Good
  • Society
  • Culture

• If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Character
  • Way
  • Me

• Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Woman

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked, all of that.

  

  George Perez
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Empathy

• I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

  

  Craig Bierko
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Character

• If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Character
  • Goals

• Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

  

  George Matthew Adams
  • Money
  • May
  • Friends

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Why
  • Character

• Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Want

• It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Lonely

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