Character Quote by Jeffrey Wright Download Open image “I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.” — Jeffrey Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Fine Known Suits Well known Wells
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters. — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way. — MacKenzie Scott Copy Share Image
I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think I may be more recognizable because I'm character-looking. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor,… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city. — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
