Character Quotes
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I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.
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Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.
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Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.
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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 definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.
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The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
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I want to know exactly how the first few measures are going to go, and the rough shape of a movement or the whole piece and its essential character.
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My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted at in Discourse, and I plan to explore it more in later books.
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
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I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
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As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
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When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.
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I definitely acknowledge that The Matrix and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement - for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.
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If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations. I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is. I have to worry less about what the character means if I trust the director.
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No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
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From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
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Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
