Characters Quotes

• People forget that the more we know about the world - about people, cultures, and about life - the stronger we are as actors because the more we can bring to our characters.

  

  Roberto Aguire
  • World
  • Because
  • Stronger

• Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • Different
  • Transform
  • Modeling

• You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

  

  Harvey Korman
  • Secret
  • Conflict
  • Sketch

• Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Desire
  • Trouble
  • Characters

• The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • War
  • Regardless
  • Cockpit

• You always miss them characters you've played once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Characters
  • Played
  • Walk Away

• People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in games that people like, obviously. I don't know if a certain character's voice or lack of a certain character's voice can cause somebody to buy or not buy a game.

  

  Michael Gough
  • People
  • Game
  • Certain

• Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

  

  Michael Fassbender
  • Important
  • Understand
  • Judging

• Before I nodded off, I thought about what my dad had said—​that life wasn’t all nice and neat like a book, and life didn’t have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things. But he wasn’t right about that. See, my dad said intelligent and beautiful things. And he was real. He was the most real thing in the entire world. So why couldn’t I be like him?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Real
  • Book
  • Beautiful Things

• What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.

  

  Chris Hart
  • Popular
  • Personalities
  • You Can't Take It With You

• Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

  

  Joseph Jacobs
  • Characters
  • Incidents
  • Fairytales

• If you look at wrestling when I started to get my big break back in 1992, I changed wrestling from the cartoons of Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik and the matches with the leg drop and the hand behind the ear and the playing to the crowd. They were just cartoon characters if you ask me.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Changed
  • Wrestling
  • Cartoons

• I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Play
  • My Life
  • Characters

• Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Believe
  • Audience
  • Relates

• I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Career
  • Characters
  • Transform

• When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Play
  • Story
  • Angel

• Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

  

  Susannah York
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Escape

• 'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Relationship
  • Between
  • Homeland

• Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Play
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

  

  Harry Hamlin
  • Characters
  • Aaron Echolls

• Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Reality
  • Problems
  • Middle-class

• Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.

  

  Barbara Mattes Abercrombie
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Characters

• Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.

  

  Tacitus
  • Characters
  • Fame
  • Despised

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