Top 1200 Integrity And Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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'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.

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

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

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.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

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

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.