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.
When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.
The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.
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Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.
I've been in leadership roles on Broadway, and it's one thing to lead a Broadway company - you're with those people for a year straight, and you're doing that same show, eight shows a week. It's quite another when you...
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
Even setting aside her checkered record in the Senate and the State Department, it is Mrs. Clinton's flagrant contradictions on women's issues that expose her true character.
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
When I'm trying to find my way into a character, the voice and physicality are the first two things I do.
Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the...
I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress...
No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.
To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who...
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Frequently Asked Questions
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.
