Top 1200 Character And Reputation Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it.

On the last day of every character I've ever played, I lay the clothes out on the floor with the shoes and socks, so that it looks like the character has literally vanished. That's the way you have to leave them.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

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.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

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.

I've never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I've got a reputation as a troublemaker.

I believe I can steal Fairfax's reputation in six months. It is an empty edifice. It has collapsed.

One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

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.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.

In 'Kalank,' I am playing a character, which is quite strong, quiet a little complex yet interesting, that drew me towards the character when I heard the narration from director Abhishek Varman.

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.

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

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.

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.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

That's what we do in the WWE: we tell stories; we're characters. We go into the ring, and my character is telling a story in the ring against another character.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.

I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

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

I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.