Quotes and Sayings About Character
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I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.
-- Alison Brie -
I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.
-- Alison Brie -
There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
-- Alison Goodman -
I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer
-- Alison Lohman -
To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.
-- Alistair Cooke -
The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.
-- Alla Nazimova -
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is very much in their interest to discover the weaknesses of their elders.
-- Allan Bloom -
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
-- Allan Massie -
I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.
-- Allan Stratton -
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
-- Allan Williams -
Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.
-- Allen Lacy -
It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.
-- Allison Janney -
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.
-- Allison Williams -
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.
-- Ally Carter -
I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.
-- Ally Sheedy -
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
-- Alvan Macauley -
True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.
-- Alyson Noel -
I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.
-- Alyssa Milano -
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
-- Amanda Burton -
Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
-- Amanda Peet -
I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.
-- Amanda Plummer -
It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
You May Fall In Love with Beauty of someone but Always Remember 1 Thing that finally you have to live with the Character of that person not with beauty
-- Amardeep Singh -
I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.
-- Amber Benson -
I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.
-- Amber Benson -
I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
-- Amber Heard -
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
-- Amber Heard
