Top 1200 American Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Usually viewers are attached to a character or that character's personality. But, in my case, I have been exceptionally lucky as I have been accepted as Shweta.

One of the things that I love so much about the character of Sally Bowles is that she is such a huge character - she is so roomy.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

I don't want to be a nobody in a film. It's okay if it is not a lead character, but it should be a central character and it should make an impact.

If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

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

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I'm so critical, especially of the movies I do. If the movie flows and I buy it, that's important. Beyond it working, if I buy the character, especially if I'm close to the character.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment.

A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an actor meets a role, and you slip into that body and see what happens, to experience certain conditions, to adopt a certain character. Even shooting is a study of the character. I think both the character and the actor, and eventually the filmmaker - myself - are finding a way to accept their environment and being accepted and feel comfortable of themselves.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to life. Every so often a talented actor doesn't hook in correctly to a character; or someone gets lost in a labyrinth of over-complicated thoughts, and the character and play suffer. However, most of the time I find actors either end up doing exactly what was in my head, or sometimes do something even better.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

One of the most fun characters I played on a television series, which didn't last long... was a show called 'American Gothic' that Shaun Cassidy created. I would have loved to have done that show forever. That character was so funny yet demonic. It was really good writing and a really good idea. I loved all the people on the show.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate.