Character Quotes

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

I like to take a character and develop it.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.