Character Quotes
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.
Nelson Algren
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Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones¦it will always stay blue.
Raoul Dufy
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I strongly believe that when you are cast in a role, there will be similarity in the character and you - why else would you be chosen for the character?
Harshvardhan Rane
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
Paul Newman
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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
Eugene V. Debs
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I always look for contradiction in a character.
Rebecca Hall
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My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
Scarlett Johansson
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When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"
Eric Kripke
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There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find in the films a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal.
Catherine Breillat
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'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.
George Eliot
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When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.
Paul Auster
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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
Bernard Crick
