Character Quotes

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

A man's character is his guardian divinity.

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.'

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.