Character Quotes

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
Michael Caine

Made, Actor, Star

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.
Tom Hiddleston

Someone, Spirit, Born

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay

Men, Honorable, Belong

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.
Billy Corgan

Weird, Crippled, Lumps

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.
Billy Corgan

Play, Anymore, Cartoon

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.
Billy Corgan

Mind, Makes, Question

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

History, Nation, She

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
Louis C. K.

Life, Fight, Real

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning

Love, Faith, Hope

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich

Powerful, Political, Reality

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
Roger Mudd

Judge, Political, Decision

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Jean de la Bruyere

Care, High, Less

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Themselves, Within, Player

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Margaret Fuller

History, Experience, May

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Made, Decisions, Playing

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.
Steve Coogan

Work, Play, Start

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
John Hawkes

Life, Change, Good

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Henri Matisse

Woman, Young, She

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
Catherine Deneuve

Time, Waiting, Long

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.
Giacomo Casanova

Education, Heart, Nothing

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
Mark Ruffalo

Love, Hurt, Lost

I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.
Amber Benson

Gay, Saying, Young

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
Helena Bonham Carter

Greatest, Challenge, Learn

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson

Nature, Person, Fact

I am the character you are not supposed to like.
Alan Rickman

I love wearing the exact same thing all the time because I think it makes you like a cartoon character. They always wear the same outfit and everybody always remembers them for it, so I feel like I should do the same thing.
Kesha

Love, Time, Same

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson

Playing, Trouble, Ways

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Zi

Mean, Others, Against

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold

Nice, Enemy, Easy

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