Character Quotes
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I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.
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People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that The Matrix was genre. To me it was about, for me anyway, my character, I had this rock outside my door which said "faith" or "believe" or something, and I remember felt like that was my key into her, into Trinity. It was like she was the heart of it.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
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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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If I'm gonna play a character in a movie or if I want to be the lead of a film, you wanna carry the guy, you wanna get the girl, you wanna save the day or the world.
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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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I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
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Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.
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What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
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Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life.
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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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Jessica Jones is very unique, and we are all in awe of the response from the public. It seems that everyone connected with the character, and we enjoyed shooting it.
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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
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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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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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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 I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.
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Courage is the gift of character.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
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Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.
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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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We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
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Anytime you make a play like Brandon did and take the ball from the minus two and drive it out of there, that shows a lot of character and a lot of toughness by our offensive line and our running game.
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You use your emotions to try and find them in the character that you're playing.
