Character Quotes
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A nation has character only when it is free.
Bill Vaughan
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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
Harrison Ford
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
Chris Zylka
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold
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I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.
Phillipa Soo
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The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I borrowed elements of people I admired and invested them in this mythical character. I'm such a fluent, specious person now, but I was an extremely awkward fellow in those days.
John le Carre
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We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
Ida Tarbell
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As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'
Maureen Dowd
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We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
Vin Diesel
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Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.
Christine Lakin
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To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'
Andrew Sean Greer
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I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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My pollertics, like my religion, being of an exceedin' accommodatin' character.
Charles Farrar Browne
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Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'
Beth Grant
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It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
Matthew Ashford
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Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
Jasper Fforde
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Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.
Kim Jee-woon
