Character Quotes
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My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.
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There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
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Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
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Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.
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Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.
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I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.
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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
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Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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Courage is the gift of character.
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I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.
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If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.
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There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
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You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.
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I have to believe in the character to perform it.
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I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
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I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
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You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
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By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain the swamp in which diseased emotions breed.
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At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
