Quotes About Character

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

If you go about life the right way and you're good to other people that will show and will payoff in the long run.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.

To peel the curtain back, I don't know if I could do Curry Man the same way I did it in TNA and not be racially insensitive.

I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

I believe Jean-Marie Le Pen is a man of his word, and he will not go back on his words.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that's why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny's butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that's a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.

Money does not change people, people change.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

I keep getting amazing things to bring to life. There's always something to discover with 'Dr. Bailey,' something that brings her home to the audience, something that makes people say, 'I know that woman. I work with that woman.' It's incredibly flattering and I'm still finding new things with her all the time.

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.