I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.
~By Josh Ryan Evans ~
The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
~By Nora Roberts ~
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.
~By James Stockdale ~
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
~By Orlando Jones ~
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
~By Tony Goldwyn ~
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.
~By Franz Boas ~
I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.
~By Judith Light ~
Every character I do is based on someone I know.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
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 ~
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
~By Jerome Bruner ~
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
Education has for its object the formation of character.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
~By J. C. Watts ~
The great hope of society is in individual character.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
~By Avi Arad ~
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.
~By Shelby Lynne ~
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
~By Jeffrey Combs ~
The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.
~By Richard Morris ~
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
~By Ronny Cox ~
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
~By Gabriel Byrne ~
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~By Henry Drummond ~
We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We'll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.
~By Marc Davis ~
When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.
~By Eva Green ~
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
~By Darrell Royal ~
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
~By Nadine Gordimer ~
I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.
~By Rose Byrne ~
The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.
~By Len Wein ~
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
~By Sean Bean ~
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
~By Katey Sagal ~
The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.
~By Jeffrey Jones ~
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
~By Peter Jennings ~
In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
~By Famke Janssen ~
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
~By Eugene Levy ~
I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.
~By Mark Harmon ~
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
~By John Ciardi ~
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.
~By Anna Friel ~
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.
~By Gil Gerard ~
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
~By John Osborne ~
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.
~By Josh Lucas ~
I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
~By Paul M. Glaser ~
It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
~By Aristophanes ~
Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
~By Matthew Perry ~
If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.
~By George H. Mead ~
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
~By Damon Albarn ~
When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
~By Marc Davis ~
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
~By Richard Rosen ~
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.
~By Thomas Jane ~
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
~By Oscar Levant ~
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
~By Albert Finney ~
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
~By Javier Bardem ~
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
~By Joel Coen ~
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~By Aristotle ~
I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
~By Ken Follett ~
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
~By Norman Jewison ~
Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
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