Character Quotes

• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Opportunity
  • Play
  • Challenges

• Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Different
  • Job
  • Cool

• Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Guy
  • Comedy
  • Villain

• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• 'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

  

  Jesse Plemons
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Character

• Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Character
  • Unique

• Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes
  • Cinderella
  • Fairytale

• If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Years
  • Ministry

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Moments

• I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Power
  • Free
  • Space

• The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • She
  • Character

• I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Different
  • Control
  • Exploring

• I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Why
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Character
  • Freaks
  • Galactica

• Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Character

• When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Know

• You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

  

  David R. Ellis
  • Work
  • Home
  • Movie

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Soul

• I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • Me
  • Always

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