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.
De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.
It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.
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When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's...
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it...
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was...
'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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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.
