Character Quotes
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I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.
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Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.
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You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.
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That's what character is, it's in the trying.
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The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.
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When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.
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The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
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Every character I play is me.
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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
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The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that.
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.
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My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.
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You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.
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The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.
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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long superhero fan, and he is the character that kicked off the entire genre.
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How many out-of-character things did I need to do, I wondered, before the world rearranged itself around me?
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I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.
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Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character. And my stage work has specifically enabled people to have faith that I can handle a role, even when it's not specifically written for an African-American. So, I'd have to say that recognition brings work. A successful movie brings more work, and that been the biggest blessing.
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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
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I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.
