Character Quotes

• He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Soul
  • Interesting
  • Moving

• The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

  

  Will Durant
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment
  • Saints

• Like most people, Im fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • People
  • Character
  • Personality

• 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.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Character
  • Career
  • Choice

• There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Relationship
  • Sexy
  • Theory

• Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Language

• Actually, they Hilary Clinton or Donald Trump are doing pretty well on their own. They don't need my character to step in.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Character
  • Needs
  • Steps

• There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

  

  Harvey Ball
  • Eyes
  • Ways
  • Draw

• '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.

  

  John Prine
  • Love
  • House
  • Woman

• I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Brian Billick
  • Character
  • Guys

• 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.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Links
  • Emerging
  • Behaviorism

• I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Character

• When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Female

• 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.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Character
  • Consequences
  • Behave

• If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Movie
  • Fall
  • Actors

• I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Dream
  • Directors
  • Documentary

• 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.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Jesus
  • Influence
  • Follow

• I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Song

• I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

  

  Sean Bean
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Left

• Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Character
  • Accepting
  • Sensibility

• The shape of your character is the shape of your future.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Character
  • Future
  • Shape

• I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Long
  • Together
  • Wife

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