Top 1200 Character Of A Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about gays.

As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.

'D' is about a guy who starts off somewhere, and he's a very thinking kind of a guy. He's not an emotional person; he doesn't react to situations. Instead, he's virtually choreographing the situations. So it's a development of a character.

There was a TV show that came on every week called the 'Bowery Boys,' and there was a character named Muggsy. The way I played basketball and the nickname stuck with me. No one calls me Tyrone except one person: Mom!

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes into play. My job is to create that character and present him to the audience. If even one per cent of judgment creeps in, then the whole performance will be affected.

I just loved Jake The Snake because of that character and how he cut a promo. That dark nature of his character was amazing.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as an actor to be honest to the character.

The great thing about 'Mirzapur' is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

I choose a film only if my character has got importance. My character should have some weight. I shouldn't be someone who just comes and goes.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book - you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

TNA has been great as far as allowing me to have more input creatively on my character and the direction of my character and promos.

If it's just the voice, then you can only do jokes. It's not really even about the impression so much. It's about the take and what you do with the person. I try to get a character across with the impression.

It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

I'm a fan of the fan. I'm a fan of the active devotee who lives his life believing in something, who represents to me the character of a person that is very confident and sure of himself. Those are people I admire.

You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who have polished their character and integrity until they shine are the ones who can be the real heroes the world needs to solve its problems. I think that, when people have the correct understanding of the meaning of human character, there will be a solution.

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.

The main thing I would say is: Lady Loki in the comics is a very different character to our character, obviously.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just let them go.

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return to their normal life.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.