Character Quotes

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.

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.