Character Quotes
Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.
Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.
I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.
Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.
There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.
I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.
Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.