Character Quotes

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

I would defy people to find a more beautifully developed character than Seven of Nine.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. You can't put anything into a character that you haven't got within you.

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

Character is power.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.