Best Character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.”

Character Stories Fun Audience Introducing Fun Things

“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

Different Play Character Light Night Actors Simple Audience Theater Every Night

Author:Diego Luna

“It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.”

Character Difficult Tvs Shadow Get Away

Author:Jason Lee

“Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.”

Way Writing Character Political Voice Powerful Fiction Opinion Writing Fiction Political Opinions

Author:Jen Lancaster

“For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?”

Looks Important Character Actors Ability Important Things Converses

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.”

Character Actors Skills Character Actors

Author:Kristin Lehman

“For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.”

Needs Feels Believe Character Able Process Difficult Behinds Comfortable Vulnerable Preparation Thought Process

Author:Logan Lerman

“I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.”

Character Stories Directors

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I can't play a character that I am judging.”

I Can Play Character Judging

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.”

Character Particular Tvs Complaints Hook

Author:Kevin McKidd

“I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.”

Knows Littles Character Helping Focus Help Me Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.”

Needs Character Order Dies Break

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.”

Thinking Way Writing Believe Character Able I Believe My Own Attitude Style Events Originals Work Out Affected Good Writers

Author:Margaret Mahy

“In a way, the characters often do take over.”

Way Character

Author:Margaret Mahy

“It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.”

Wells Ideas Character Stories Happens Originals Sophisticated Original Ideas

Author:Margaret Mahy

“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”

Needs Character Stories Seems My Own Space Ordinary Everyday Abandon Take Me Everyday Life Retreat Time And Space Ordinary Life

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.”

Way Character Use Bigs Courses Differences Pleasure Levels Particular Length Vocabulary

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.”

Feels Character Actors Character Actors

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.”

Character Actors Concern Boring Chandeliers

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.”

Character Wanted Girl Nice Happened Scene Bed Universal Yeah Tied Being Nice Let Her Go

Author:Matthew McGrory

“Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.”

Trying Character School Personality Autonomy

Author:Mia Maestro

“Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.”

Done Character House White Written Arms Ten Constitution Chiefs White House Commandments Motto Ten Commandments Pharaohs Minions

Author:Michelle Malkin

“New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.”

Way Doe Character Stories New York Function Woody

Author:Radha Mitchell

“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

I Can Different Character Would Be Jobs Lasts Actors Easy Challenges Veins Challenging Myself

Author:Richard Madden

“One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.”

May Different Character Beautiful Games Bits Views Point Of View Convince Beautiful Things Thrones Allegiance Different Points Of View

Author:Richard Madden

“Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.”

Character Bigs Live Life Big Things Otherness

Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Character Stories Bigs Acting Backgrounds

Author:Rose McGowan

“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”

People Character Actors Focus Directors Solitary Ensemble

Author:Jodie Foster

“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.”

Writing Character Guy Girl Community Boys Novel Nice Grew Grew Up My Friends Expected Exception Bad Guys My Boyfriend Good Girl Good Boy

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.”

Ifs Two Soul Character Stories Would Be Next Possibility Host Seekers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.”

Moments Character Acting I Realized Drivers Taxi

Author:Jodie Foster

“I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.”

Thinking Men Character Would Be Turns Actors Character Actors Dashing

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.”

People Different Character Actors Acting Comfortable Like Me Escapism Character Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.”

Different Character Dream Actors Dreams Come True

Author:Dean Norris

“As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.”

Knows Needs Character Actors Backgrounds

Author:John Noble

“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”

Trying Play Character Film Process Learning Process

Author:Ajay Naidu

“It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.”

Trying Ends Hard Play Character The End Of The Day

Author:Ben Nicholas

“As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.”

People Feels Character Talking Too Much Talking Too Much Time To Leave

Author:Chris Noth

“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.”

Writing Different Character Stories Together Political Animal Emotional Tvs Development Smart Depth These Days Character Development Really Smart Different Animals

Author:Connie Nielsen

“I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.”

Ifs Important Character Stories Strong Challenges Quality Products Scripts Good Story What's Important Great Character

Author:Corin Nemec

“There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.”

Real Moments Character Acting Emotion Emotional Bases Method Response Real Life Emotional Response Residual Method Acting

Author:Corin Nemec

“I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.”

Ifs Character Stories Seems Might Film Night Horror Scary Setting Weather Settings Horror Film

Author:David Naughton

“We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.”

Character Quality Development Neighborhood Housing

Author:Gavin Newsom

“My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.”

Character Names My Own Glorious Disgrace Envied Horatio

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”

Trying Ideas Character Cities New York Identity London Hotel Venice Soho

Author:Jean Nouvel

“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.”

Knows Way Ends Matter Character Stories Interesting Crime Committed Boring Plot Just Being Entertainers

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.”

Ifs Thinking Character Comedy Obstacles

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“I like to work as much as I can, but I only really have the hiatus to work on other projects. I've kept myself busy recently. I voiced a character in 'Ice Age 4,' which was a lot of fun. I also did another small movie called 'The Scribbler.'”

I Can Character Age Fun Projects Busy Ice Ice Age Hiatus

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.”

Mind Long Play Character Guy Father Given Changed Lovers Illusion Wide Range Villain Cop Bad Guys

Author:Navid Negahban

“American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.”

Character Nations Narrative Recurring Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Ron Fournier

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