Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.
Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.
Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.
Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.
Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.
I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.
I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.
I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.
The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'
I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.
If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.
The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.
Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.
I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.
None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.