Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of...
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have...
The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved....
It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn to the audience and sing.
There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
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What different meanings of "character" appear on this page?
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Unusually, one entry borrows the word from physics, describing the dual wave-and-particle character of matter and radiation. Continue with Characters quotes or Character Development quotes.
