Quotes About Character

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.

In fact, it is more interesting to play someone whose politics is not in sync with my own politics because then I have to understand a different kind of mind and that becomes more interesting as an actor.

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

My role as Chitra is synonymous to my character in real life. If Chitra is crying or shouting or reacting in a certain way then Sudha would have reacted in the same manner.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

What really matters, finally, is the big picture, the fictional dream that lingers after the details have vanished. The big picture is formed not only by our descriptions of characters, settings and events but also by forces that reside above and below our story's surface—atmosphere, mood, feeling, motif, theme, form, structure and tone. These terms are far from interchangeable.

Chickadee ain't no reg'lar girl," Betty Jane announced. "She can outdo most menfolks around these here parts. Got the strength o' them bahrs she kills. Wouldn't never know it to look at her, though. Some say it's her spirit that gives her strength. But she's a livin' legend, shore and sartin.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.

No matter what you say you believe, people can tell what's important by the way you act. And your behavior will affect what they believe.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.

Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

He was likely the only one who realized there was a will of iron under the porcelain.

There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.

Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.