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.
Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.
You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.
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Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.
I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.
Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows... that's very rare.
On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'
I want to play a character which is as far away from myself as possible and a character that isn't even human, a superhero is just that.
A lot of people think, like, 'JoJo' is fake or 'JoJo' is a character. But, like, it's not.
Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.
In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.
It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.
'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I...
People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most...
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
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.
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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.
