Character Quotes

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

I'd like to be known for my character.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who's concerned about his body - an athlete, say - I'll get in shape. If I'm playing a character who doesn't or wouldn't, I don't. I almost never get in shape for a movie, even though I know it would be a good career move.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.