Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny.

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the character.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am.

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

I think that American audiences are more used to following one character.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

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