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.
My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
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Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'
I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with.
For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.
If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your character.
I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.
You need to be able to build a character, you need to have time, you need to have a microphone and be able to talk so people can relate to you.
You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.
Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional...
I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.
As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.
The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in...
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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.
