If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?
~By Judd Hirsch ~
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
~By Neil LaBute ~
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
~By Michael Vartan ~
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
~By John Millington Synge ~
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
~By Eddie Murphy ~
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
~By Ralph Thomas Walker ~
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
~By Rick Allen ~
I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.
~By Peter R. Grant ~
It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.
~By Joseph J. Ellis ~
Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
~By Georg Simmel ~
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
~By Preston Manning ~
The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
~By Craig McCracken ~
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
~By C. L. R. James ~
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
~By William James ~
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
~By William John Wills ~
I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.
~By Jason Dohring ~
Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.
~By Todd English ~
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
~By Norman Mailer ~
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
~By Thomas Perry ~
You don't become the character.
~By Peter Fonda ~
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.
~By Rene Auberjonois ~
People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.
~By Fred Melamed ~
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
~By Henry Fielding ~
I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
~By Brigham Young ~
I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
~By Tara Strong ~
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
~By Simon Callow ~
The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.
~By Richard Fleeshman ~
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
~By Loretta Swit ~
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.
~By Ashley Tisdale ~
I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.
~By David Naughton ~
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
~By Edward Hopper ~
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
~By Dale Turner ~
It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that.
~By William Devane ~
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.
~By Sean Bean ~
If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
~By Catherine Keener ~
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
~By Shelby Foote ~
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
~By John Lubbock ~
The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
~By Jonathan Demme ~
I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.
~By Dennis Franz ~
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
~By Harvey Korman ~
The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
~By Penelope Keith ~
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
~By John Hawkes ~
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
~By Cat Stevens ~
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~By Walter Hagen ~
So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
~By Li Peng ~
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.
~By Donna Mills ~
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
~By Vin Diesel ~
It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
~By Richard Kiel ~
I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.
~By Claudia Christian ~
I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.
~By Jonathan Bennett ~
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
~By Kyle MacLachlan ~
I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
~By Charles E. Trevelyan ~
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
~By Alan Dean Foster ~
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!
~By Peter Cushing ~
Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
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.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
~By Debbie Reynolds ~
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.
~By Sharon Gless ~
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~By Anne Frank ~
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