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 ~
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
~By Anita Desai ~
Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.
~By Hilary Duff ~
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
~By Patricia Clarkson ~
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
~By George P. Baker ~
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
~By Len Wein ~
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
~By Dean Koontz ~
The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
~By Roger Mudd ~
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
~By Christian Bale ~
I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.
~By Monica Keena ~
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
~By Eddie Rickenbacker ~
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
~By Liev Schreiber ~
The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
~By Christopher Walken ~
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
~By Robert Duvall ~
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
~By Henri Matisse ~
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
~By Alison Bechdel ~
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
~By Walter Martin ~
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 ~
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
~By Donald Creighton ~
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
~By Michael Zaslow ~
I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
~By Harold Warner ~
The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
~By Robert Englund ~
First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.
~By Jean Stapleton ~
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
~By Major Taylor ~
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
~By Goldwin Smith ~
I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.
~By Jennifer Saunders ~
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
~By Gabriel Byrne ~
I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.
~By Esai Morales ~
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
~By George Santayana ~
I try to distinguish my characters from each other.
~By Lucy Liu ~
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.
~By Kristen Bell ~
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 ~
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
~By Albert Einstein ~
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
~By Arthur Lowe ~
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.
~By Kathy Bates ~
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
~By Chris Cooper ~
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.
~By Michael Vartan ~
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
~By Emmy Rossum ~
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
~By Martin Short ~
And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
~By Spike Lee ~
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'
~By John Sayles ~
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
~By Arthur Miller ~
Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
~By Theodore Parker ~
I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.
~By Nick Cannon ~
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
~By Thorne Smith ~
With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
~By Preston Manning ~
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
~By Margaret Weis ~
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
~By Richard Hofstadter ~
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
~By John Morley ~
You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.
~By Chris Hemsworth ~
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
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 ~
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
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'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
~By Ajay Naidu ~
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
~By Sam Neill ~
Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
~By Anita Diament ~
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
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 ~
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
~By Victor Garber ~
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 ~
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 ~
Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.
~By Roger Moore ~
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