Character Quotes · Page 89

I don't slot actors into the image of a character that's already built. I build characters by listening to the voice and…

— Takashi Miike

I announced my dissent in the Citizens United orally, and I stumbled in my announcement. I had a little difficulty expressing myself.…

— John Paul Stevens

I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not…

— Corey Stoll

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

— Jodie Comer

This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of…

— Ryan Reynolds

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I…

— Elisha Cuthbert

Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what…

— H. L. Mencken

Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no…

— Keeley Hawes

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

— Charles Baudelaire

The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the…

— Billy Mills

I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read,…

— Gail Simone

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't…

— Morgan Freeman

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want…

— Jim Carrey

I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and…

— Adam Sedgwick

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I…

— Dennis Cooper

I don't like boring characters.

— Arshad Warsi

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places.…

— Jonathan Jackson

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character

— Rick Yune

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

— Juno Temple

I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is…

— Olivia De Havilland

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

— Chuck Jones

I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me…

— Carey Lowell

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

— Vincent de Paul

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

— Adam McKay

Growing up when I was watching wrestling, if a guy couldn't talk, I didn't care about him. You could have the fanciest…

— Eli Drake

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

— Christopher Walken

I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just…

— Lily James

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens…

— Pedro Almodovar

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves…

— Alan Barth

“A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves…

— George Eliot

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like…

— Christina Ricci

When I sat down with the creators of the show [Longmire], back when we were first starting to do the pilot, Branch…

— Bailey Chase

Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of…

— William Thorsell

I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and…

— Prunella Scales

Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity…

— Roger L'Estrange

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with…

— Brendan Fletcher

The main differences are their characters. Mourinho is more of a character than Guardiola. In a confrontation Mourinho would square-up and Guardiola…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all…

— Wentworth Miller

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,…

— David Hume