Character Quotes
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.
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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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As far as movies, I love 'The Notebook.' I always say that I wish I could play Rachel McAdams' character. She's amazing. That's the movie every girl wants to be in.
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I like that - the "you-ish" character.
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Actually, they Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump are doing pretty well on their own. They don't need my character to step in.
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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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As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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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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I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.
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I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
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A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.
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Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
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Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
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Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?
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I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
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When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.
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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 often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.
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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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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
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Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.
