Character Quotes

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Filming a movie is different from a TV show because film is a lot quicker, you get to see the character progress and grow all in one script, and in television, you wait for a weekly update on each character.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.