Top 1200 Real Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.

Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

Not many know, but the costumes of your character can really help you to get into the skin of the character.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

The character of the English players is very good. It is a working character. If they are on the pitch they like to work.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'll forgive my saying so, anywhere.

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in.

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.

When it comes to the look of a character, it plays a very important role in shaping up a character's personality.

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

But if you can empathise with a character and if you can emotionally resonate with that character and understand their emotional journey, I think you are home.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.

When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

It's hard for people to differentiate between a character they see on television and a person who plays the character.

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.

I find that if I hold your hand, it transfers an energy first. I have a sense of how you feel. That's important to me trying to become another person. I have a lot pressure to bring a character to life in any kind of real sense.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.

Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

My take is that every character requires a different character to be cast.

Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a layered character, it's understanding the secret of that character, and so whatever comes up as "Oh, I thought that person was that," you are always carrying that within you. So actually what you're playing all the way through is both and it's just what comes out in the scene or the circumstance.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies