Character Quotes
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Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
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I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
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But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
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I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.
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I love wearing Converse or Vans and wear a lot of bombers or denim jackets. I'm also a bit of loser, so wear a lot of film and band T-shirts. My friends say that I look like a cartoon character because I'm always wearing the same kind of stuff.
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Yeah, it’s really great. I mean, the clonesbians—you know, I have to say, I feel sometimes that fiction can reflect reality and sometimes even affect it. And I’m really proud to play a gay character whose main problem is not that she’s gay, which it shouldn’t be for anyone. So, I’m really proud of that.
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Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
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Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
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You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.
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The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.
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The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
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I think with actors, we tend to get rid of characters - and not get rid of them as in discard them or throw them away, but it's just that you take that jacket off because you're going to be putting a different jacket on.
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I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as a character isn't actually quite often the means by which an actor overcomes his own terror of standing there onstage and creating a mask to hide behind.
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As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they're gone. I try not to get too involved.
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George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
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The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it, so that the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air; but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.
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I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.
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Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.
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It sounded nothing like the classic "That's all folks" that the character did. So everytime I'm asked to do it - and nine out of ten "Looney Tunes" shows ends with Porky coming out saying "That's all folks" - I'll say to them, which one do you want?
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What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.
