Character Quotes

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan Skarsgard plays the younger Max Von Sydow character. It's just a fantastic script. It's a very eerie, very scary script. It encomposes a growing dread that I think is really appropriate for the film.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural character.