Top 1200 Cartoon Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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 met Mike Judge when I was working on my own cartoon for MTV; it did not air. But I got on with Mike and then did a few voices on 'Beavis and Butt-Head' because of it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

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

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.

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show 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.

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.

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 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.

There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

It's quite a layered character that I portray in 'Jalebi' and I needed to deviate and cut-off completely from the world to get into a different zone as a character. I'm really glad it proved beneficial and worked to my advantage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky's character Willamena Rader, who's not, they become friends.

Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.

While you're testing out armatures of puppets, you're also trying to find the proper visual vocabulary for the character and to come up with a guidebook of sorts for how a character will move and act.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

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 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.

To be honest, there is a special gift for doing voice-overs, and the people who did the voices in the 'SpongeBob' cast are excellent at cartoon voice-overs, and they bring something extra to the reads.

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.

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

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.

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

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.