Character famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
-- Alexander Smith -
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
-- Alexander Smith -
I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.
-- Alexandra Sokoloff -
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.
-- Alexei Sayle -
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
-- Alexia Fast -
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
-- Alexis Carrel -
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?
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!
-- Alfre Woodard -
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
-- Alfred Adler -
Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character....
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.
-- Alfred Austin -
You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.
-- Alfred Brendel -
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
-- Alfred Jarry -
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
-- Alfred Jodl -
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.
-- Alfred Marshall -
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
-- Alfred Marshall -
I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.
-- Alfred Molina -
Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.
-- Alfred Molina -
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and this is what is decisive has never been lost, despite times of decline, so long as the Nordic blood was still alive. Heroism, in fact, took many forms, from the warrior nobility of Siegfried or Hercules to the intellectual nobility of Copernicus and Leonardo , the religious nobility of Eckehart and Lagarde, or the political nobility of Frederick the Great and Bismarck , and its substance has remained the same.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I'm excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it's been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I'm coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.
-- Ali Larter -
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
-- Ali Smith -
In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the characters face really helps get the message across. On stage, you cant do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you cant get anywhere else because the audience is right there.
-- Alice Eve -
My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.
-- Alice Eve -
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are
-- Alice Hoffman -
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
-- Alice Miller -
I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.
-- Alice Neel -
I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.
-- Alicia Keys -
What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with... or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
-- Alicia Witt -
On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.
-- Alicia Witt -
It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
-- Alison Bechdel -
I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
-- Alison Brie -
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
-- Alison Brie -
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
-- Alison Goodman -
I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer
-- Alison Lohman -
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.
-- Alistair Cooke -
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
-- Alla Nazimova -
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.
-- Allan Bloom -
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
-- Allan Massie -
I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.
-- Allan Stratton -
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
-- Allan Williams -
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.
-- Allen Lacy -
It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.
-- Allison Janney -
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
-- Allison Williams -
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.
-- Ally Carter -
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
-- Ally Sheedy -
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
-- Alvan Macauley -
True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.
-- Alyson Noel -
I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
-- Alyssa Milano -
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
-- Amanda Burton -
Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
-- Amanda Peet -
I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.
-- Amanda Plummer -
It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
You May Fall In Love with Beauty of someone but Always Remember 1 Thing that finally you have to live with the Character of that person not with beauty
-- Amardeep Singh -
I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.
-- Amber Benson -
I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.
-- Amber Benson -
I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
-- Amber Heard -
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
-- Amber Heard -
Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.
-- Amber Heard -
I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
The Lord Jesus himself proclaims, 'This is My Body.' Before the blessing of the heavenly words something of another character is spoken of; after consecration it is designated 'body'. He himself speaks of his blood. Before the consecration it is spoken of as something else; after the consecration it is spoken of as 'blood'. And you say, 'Amen', that is, 'It is true.' What the mouth speaks, let the mind within confess; what the tongue utters, let the heart feel.
-- Ambrose -
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ***** and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.
-- America Ferrera -
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.
-- Ami McKay -
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
-- Amy Adams -
I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.
-- Amy Adams -
I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.
-- Amy Adams -
We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
-- Amy Goodman -
There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.
-- Amy Hempel -
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
-- Amy Hempel -
I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.
-- Amy Hoggart -
I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".
-- Amy Poehler -
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
-- Amy Sedaris -
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.
-- Amy Smart
