Character Quotes

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

~ Augustus Hare

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

~ Dallas Willard

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

~ Katherine Waterston

We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.

~ Lee Unkrich

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

~ Colleen Atwood

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

~ Sergio Aragonés

We're used to boy meets girl, boy likes girl, instant attraction on TV. But you throw a son in there, you throw a marriage in there, and you've got some really good character stuff.

~ Matt Passmore

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

~ Peter De Vries

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

~ Billy Zane

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

~ Solon

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

~ Bayard Rustin

I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.

~ Stefon Diggs

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

~ Charles Krauthammer

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

~ Lee Tergesen

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

~ Jeffrey Bell

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

~ Jane Seymour

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

~ Gong Li

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

~ Plautus

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

~ John Millington Synge

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

~ Will Hobbs

Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.

~ Patrick Demarchelier

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

~ Walter Hagen

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

~ Agyness Deyn

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

~ Matthew Lillard

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

~ Melissa Rosenberg

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

~ Samuel L. Jackson

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

~ Epictetus

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

~ Ridley Scott

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

~ Jennifer Lopez

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

~ Rashida Jones

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

~ Jack Nicholson

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

~ Miranda Otto

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

~ Idris Elba

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

~ James Russell Lowell

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

~ Joaquin Phoenix

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

~ Shigeru Miyamoto

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

~ Peter Ackroyd

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

~ Uzo Aduba

Paint the essential character of things.

~ Camille Pissarro