Character famous quotes

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
-- Bob Woodward

#Character #Thinking #Giving

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
-- Bob Woodward

#Character #Scandal #Complicated

I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character.
-- Bobby Bowden

#Hurt #Character #Vocabulary

I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.
-- Bobby Cannavale

#Growing Up #Character #Keys

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.
-- Bobby Moynihan

#Character #These Days #Burn Out

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
-- Bobby Vinton

#Girl #Character #Dancing

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.
-- Boman Irani

#Jobs #Character #Editors

I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way.
-- Boman Irani

#Character #Proud #Way

My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I've made it.
-- Bong Joon-ho

#Lying #Character #Trying

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
-- Bonnie Jo Campbell

#Writing #Character #Men

It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.
-- Bonnie Jo Campbell

#War #Character #Fighting

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
-- Bonnie Wright

#Character #Different #Needs

A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!
-- Booboo Stewart

#Character #Personality #Feelings

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
-- Booker T. Washington

#Character #Men #Circumstances

Character is power.
-- Booker T. Washington

#Character

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
-- Booker T. Washington

#Character #Heart #Hands

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
-- Booker T. Washington

#Character #Men #Skills

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation
-- Boris Yeltsin

#Character #Europe #Challenges

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.
-- Brad Dourif

#Moving #Character #Depth

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
-- Brad Falchuk

#Writing #Character #Actors

I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.
-- Brad Falchuk

#Real #Writing #Character

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
-- Brad Meltzer

#Character #Work Out #Plot

Jesse [James]was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James ] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.
-- Brad Pitt

#Character #Years #Dubious

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.
-- Brad Pitt

#Character #Cracks #Problem

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
-- Brad Pitt

#Character #Men #Two

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal
-- Brad Thor

#Moving #Book #Character

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
-- Bradley Whitford

#Dirty #Character #Naughty

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
-- Branch Rickey

#Character #Honor #Heritage

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
-- Brand Blanshard

#Character #Would Be #Too Much

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
-- Brander Matthews

#Character #Play #Oscars

I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Character #Gun #Guy

It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.
-- Brandon Lee

#Character #Thinking #Ties

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.
-- Brandon Lee

#Character #Dark #Wicked

Choices determine character.
-- Brandon Mull

#Character #Choices #Determine

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money.
-- Brandon Routh

#Character #People #Excited

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
-- Brandon Routh

#Character #Ego #Important

That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character.
-- Brandon Routh

#Character #Giving #Calm

I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know.
-- Brandon Routh

#Character #Sky #Legacy

But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
-- Brandon Routh

#Real #Character #Long

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
-- Breaux Greer

#Character #Backgrounds

My character is not flawless.
-- Breckin Meyer

#Character #Flawless

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.
-- Breckin Meyer

#Hate #Reading #Character

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
-- Brenda Barnes

#Leadership #Character #Important

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.
-- Brendan Dooling

#Falling In Love #Character #Numbers

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.
-- Brendan Fehr

#Character #Cameras #Rolling

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.
-- Brendan Fehr

#Character #Giving #Acting

Into The Wild had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and Unforgiven is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.
-- Brendan Fletcher

#Character #Lines #Very True

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them
-- Brendan Fraser

#Character #Swings #Cartoon

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
-- Brendan Fraser

#Character #Cameras #Pieces

I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?
-- Brendan Fraser

#Believe #Character #Thinking

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
-- Brendan Fraser

#Character #Culture #Way

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
-- Brendan Gleeson

#Brother #Character #Interesting

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.
-- Brendan Gleeson

#Character #Thinking #Two

I mean, I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.
-- Brendan Sexton III

#Character #Mean #Needs

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
-- Bret Easton Ellis

#Character #Ideas #Way

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
-- Brian De Palma

#Sexy #Fun #Character

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures
-- Brian De Palma

#Character #Long #Acting

Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
-- Brian Jacques

#Character #Kids #Animal

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
-- Brian K. Vaughan

#Character #Winning #Issues

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight of why they are telling the story. They don't let the characters actually speak. Characters will start to dictate the story in sometimes surprising, emotional, and funny ways. If the writers are not open to those surprises, they're going to strangle the life, spark, or spirit out of their work.
-- Brian Michael Bendis

#Book #Character #Emotional

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.
-- Brian Michael Bendis

#Character #Fighting #Stories

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
-- Brian Tracy

#Character #Long #Emotion

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
-- Brian Tracy

#Character #People #Calm

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
-- Brian Tracy

#Perseverance #Character #Persistence

Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
-- Brian Tracy

#Integrity #Character #Foundation

Truthfulness is the main element of character.
-- Brian Tracy

#Character #Elements #Truthfulness

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
-- Brian Tracy

#Honesty #Character #Intellectual

The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.
-- Bridget Riley

#Character #Way #Accepting

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.
-- Bridgit Mendler

#Character #Play #Challenges

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
-- Bridgit Mendler

#Character #Voice #Different

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
-- Bridgit Mendler

#Character #Thinking #Scott Fitzgerald

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.
-- Brie Larson

#Character #Expression #Singing

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
-- Brion James

#Character #Doe #Actors

I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.
-- Brion James

#Character #Television #Film

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
-- Brit Marling

#Heart #Character #Views

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.
-- Britt Robertson

#Character #Earth #Able

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.
-- Brittany Murphy

#Character #Play #Actors

I consider myself a character actor.
-- Brittany Murphy

#Character #Actors

I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained but also [see] something that has a lot of heart to it. The things we do in the movie - it has a lot of heart, and also it's really smart. The people and the characters that we are, we're really intelligent people that are using our tactics to get back at a guy. The moral of being who you are, and trusting yourself, finding your inner strength - I think that's something that most teen movies don't really dial into.
-- Brittany Snow

#Smart #Heart #Character

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
-- Brittany Snow

#Character #Night #Two

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
-- Brittany Snow

#Character #Play #Different

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
-- Brittany Snow

#Character #Independent #People

Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.
-- Brock Yates

#Character #Fighting #Men

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. Im pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.
-- Brooke Shields

#Moving #Character #Adversity

The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
-- Brooke Westcott

#Character #Generations

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
-- Bruce Barton

#God #Character #Expression

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
-- Bruce Boxleitner

#Character #Men #Thinking

The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character
-- Bruce C. Hafen

#Character #Justice #Debt

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
-- Bruce Campbell

#Lying #Character #Actors

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
-- Bruce Davison

#Character #Play #Actors

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
-- Bruce Davison

#Character #Interesting #Trying

Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Character #Cells #Environmental

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)
-- Bruce H. Lipton

#Jobs #Character #Destiny

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
-- Bruce Lee

#Character #Thinking #Determine

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
-- Bruce Lee

#Respect #Knowledge #Character

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.
-- Bruce Lee

#Character

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
-- Bruce McCulloch

#Cancer #Heart #Character

The "magic if" is a tool invented by Stanislavski, the father of acting craft, is to help an actor make appropriate choices. Essentially, the "magic if" refers to the answer to the question, "What would I do if I were this character in this situation?" Note that the question is not "What would I do if I were in this situation?" What you would do may be very different from what the character would do. Your job, based on your analysis of the script, the scene, and the given circumstances regarding the who of your character, is to decide what he or she would do.
-- Bruce Miller

#Jobs #Father #Character

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.
-- Bruno Dumont

#Character #Actors #Matching

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.
-- Bruno Schulz

#Character #Reality #Cracks