Character Quotes

My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters.

I'd rather go back to waitressing than play a character that I hate.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.

I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.