Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters.
I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.
One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.
From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.
Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.
In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.
It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.
I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.
It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.
The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.
You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.
A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors
New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.
I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.
For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.
[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.
A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.
God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.
I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
I dont believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.