Character Quotes
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It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.
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Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
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One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.
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When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.
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When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
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Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
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I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.
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The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.
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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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Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.
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"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
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My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one in 40 years, are contemporary. But I never did an effects movie. So, I'm also a producer and I was really curious about how this whole thing went together.
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It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness.
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Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
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For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?
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The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking differently. I lack that ability. If I were writing, they would all talk like me, and that's no good.
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I think there's an initial shedding of the skin of a character when you've played them for so long, almost like a snake losing its skin. But when a job is done, I kind of walk away from it because I know that I need to prep for whatever else I'm going onto - I need to get back to being myself, which... Who knows exactly who that is, with all the talking voices in my head. You know, back to being a bit of a blank slate again. It becomes a necessity as an actor - at least for the way that I act.
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I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
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I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
