Character Quotes · Page 246

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it…

— Margaret Atwood

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's…

— Kyle Chandler

It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

— Piper Perabo

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

— Sibel Kekilli

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

— Kristen Bell

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

— Upasana Singh

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

— Mark Strong

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

— Leigh Newman

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more…

— Scott Glenn

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life…

— Wesley J. Smith

'Snow White and the Huntsman' was - I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron's character for…

— John Lee Hancock

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect…

— Antonio Banderas

I feel the less you project of yourself, the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it's just…

— Evelyne Brochu

I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent,…

— Christopher Lee

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion…

— Charles Grandison Finney

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by…

— George Washington

“She’s just this character to you. Both of us are! And we always have been. You don’t know what goes on in…

— Kristopher Jansma

You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories…

— John Leguizamo

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended…

— Samuel Johnson

I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like…

— Rita Dove

The whole novelty and challenge of playing twins is something that has kept things wonderfully fresh for me. Just the pure joy…

— Dove Cameron

There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters…

— Angelina Jolie

Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really…

— Donnie Fritts

Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

— Ellen Pompeo

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If I have to go heel, I'll go heel. I'll never get out of my character.

— Belal Muhammad

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

— Meryl Streep

When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really…

— RJ Mitte

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the…

— Jessica Lange

Our higher character comes from going through, not around negative aspects. Life is a process, escape is not an option.

— Minka Kelly

As time goes on, I will play characters who get older: I don't want to be some Botoxed weirdo.

— Jodie Foster

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

— Joe Morton

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

— David Duchovny

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

— Pixie Lott

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

“Don't chase butterflies, tend to your garden, the butterfly will come.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Good things to say only and hear about the good are saying is not necessary/good things of those who have a good…

— Mak_786

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

— Daniel Craig

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

— Jeff Goldblum