Quotes and Sayings About Character
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
-- Al Pacino -
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
-- Al Pacino -
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
-- Al Pacino -
You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.
-- Al Swearengen -
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.
-- Al Swearengen -
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
-- Al-Jahiz -
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
-- Alain de Botton -
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet -
Agent Mom is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as Agent Mom.
-- Alaina Huffman -
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
-- Alan Alda -
I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
-- Alan Alda -
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
-- Alan Armstrong -
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
-- Alan Ball -
I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
-- Alan Ball -
Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.
-- Alan Ball -
Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
-- Alan Barth -
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure. . . . A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth's.
-- Alan Bennett -
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
-- Alan Bennett -
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel... I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
-- Alan Bradley -
Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.
-- Alan Cumming -
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
-- Alan Furst -
But rules cannot substitute for character.
-- Alan Greenspan -
It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
-- Alan Jay Lerner
