Assuming Quote by Edmund Burke

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

— Aesop

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just…

— Sissy Spacek

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and…

— Hallie Ephron

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of…

— Joel Coen

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

— Marva Collins

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character,…

— Thomas Bernhard

If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

— Brian Azzarello

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

— Arthur Trudeau

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

— Antonio Banderas

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

— Clemence Poesy

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

— Julie Benz

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so…

— Tana French