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.
With the work that I do as a director, I’ve got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I believe that every single person attached to a film is a character and nothing more. I don’t categorize them as hero, heroine, etc.
I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
You know it’s a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you’re a spectator or a reader.
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
I have to believe in the character to perform it.
I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It’s easier when you’re not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
It’s part of the human character to want to know what’s over the next hill, to want to know what’s beyond.
It’s easy to play a character who is suffering with a disease or has a psychological problem. ‘Gentleman’ is completely opposite. There are both positives and negatives in the role, and it is the most challenging role I have done so far.
I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you’re going to be very cliche there. You know, you’ve got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he’s wrong.
Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God’s character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.
Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.
The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.
Cogsworth, the character I did on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn’t want Cogsworth to become Disney’s gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.
There’s something really charming about a character that is fundamentally flawed and does some pretty despicable things, but yet you still kind of love him.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
What I love about Bridgerton’ though is that the women in it do have their own agency within the context of the time. In fact, Daphne is actually quite a feminist character because she’s in control of her destiny.
If the characters on ‘The West Wing’ were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn’t find it believable.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I’m finding out good information on a character, I will stop when I’m set to stop.
That’s, to me, the ultimate goal – to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I’ve convinced other human beings that it’s a real person.
If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
There’s something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
When I’m acting, it’s like I am the character – no one can talk to me. But I’m not so method I’d sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.
I read all the time that people think I’m arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, ‘That image doesn’t fit you.’
Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn’t much.
I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character – do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.
Character is more important than talent.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.
Rajini sir’s character in ‘Petta’ is inspired from the same name from Tamil film ‘Mullum Malarum.’
There’s no doubt West Point impacted who I am… It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it’s the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.
When I read a good story, I often start thinking, ‘Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?’ It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
In ‘Cosmicomics,’ I came close to science fiction – I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.
When I step into a character’s shoes, I don’t judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That’s happened a lot. Or they’re often purely victims.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill’s character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what’s fun about him is that he doesn’t care about anyone else, and it’s very difficult for a main character – a lead character – in a movie to not care about anybody else.
Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I’d be playing a nonbinary character on ‘Steven Universe.’ I never really had the words like nonbinary or gender fluid or gender nonconforming until after ‘Drag Race’ and that’s when I first started identifying publicly as nonbinary.
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.
