Top 1200 Best Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

Admit it. I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.

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

Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so sublimely boyish yet fulsomely feminine that she combines the best of both genders. I adored her.

When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.

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

As long as you keep in mind that what you're looking for is the best person, regardless of anything else, you're going to find the best of the best.

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.

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.

Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.

I have two hammocks, one Mayan and one Guatemalan, both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When I'm working on a character, I lie in them and daydream. They're the best tools for working that I have.

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.

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.

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 think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

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.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes 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.

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

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

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.

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

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

When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

If I win the title, I want to know I was the best guy that year, and to be the best, you've got to go against the best.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

With Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the best player in the world, Juventus are the best team in Europe or at least one of the best teams.

I'm one of the best producers, one of the best singers. You hear me? I'm not just one of the best rappers. I'm one of the greatest ever.

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character.

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.

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.

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.

For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

I'm very glad people love 'Breaking Bad,' but the harder character to write is the good character that's as interesting and as engaging as the bad guy.

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality.

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

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

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 was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.

Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's what gets us in.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

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

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.

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 think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.