Character Quotes
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George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
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Character is a journey, not a destination.
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
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When you play a character that exists or existed, there's a stronger responsibility that you have. You owe that person and then you owe the family, you owe history, you owe the victims, the victims' families.
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I've been talking about the character of these guys for quite awhile and I think you saw it tonight. It is something we can and will build on.
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'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.
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The shape of your character is the shape of your future.
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I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
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Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
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There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that 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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Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
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I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
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Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.
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History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
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What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
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Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to enter his dream as opposed to, you know, a guy like Sidney Lumet or something is going to ask you to create a character almost like a documentary. He wants you to make the people really real and he's going to capture it like a documentarian.
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Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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Opposed to atomism and behaviorism, the systems view of man links him again with the world he lives in, for he is seen as emerging in that world and reflecting its general character.
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I really love being a character actor.
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To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes.
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I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
