Character Quotes

• Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Bad

• It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Work
  • Character

• I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Character

• No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

  

  Chris Morris
  • People
  • Character
  • Hate

• No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Time
  • Important
  • Simple

• The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Character
  • Prince
  • Hamlet

• Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Character
  • Think
  • Reader

• I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Film

• I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have either real examples that you work with, maybe some specific person that inspires you in that case, or the performances from other people, or the characters, or a character from a book.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Same

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Character
  • Judge

• Character is power.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Character
  • Power

• Character is long-standing habit.

  

  Plutarch
  • Long
  • Character
  • Habit

• If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Character

• There's so many different things that you can physically change for a character.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Different
  • Character

• All of us that have teams want to pick the right people. I've thought a lot about that. In the NFL, we've got 13 scouts traveling the country. We're trying to pick 22 year-olds coming out of college who will be successful in the NFL. It's very hard to do. What I've learned is it's always character first.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Country
  • Trying

• One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Great
  • Free
  • Political

• I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Character
  • Dark

• I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Just

• I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Care
  • End

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