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Character Quotes
"Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own."
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"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."
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"I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept."
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"General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character."
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"At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist."
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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
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"Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do."
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"I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things."
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"You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask."
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"Public behavior is merely private character writ large."
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"I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him."
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"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
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"The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows."
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"There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this."
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"I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity."
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"I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do."
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"I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."
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"I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots."
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"Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character."
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"Character and attitude deficiencies are piercing thorns depending your handhold."
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"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."
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"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
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"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival."
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"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
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"Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself."
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"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
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"It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest."
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"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."
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"I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to."
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