Quotes of: Character Keyword

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

Paul Haggis

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

Albert Finney

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

Amanda Seyfried

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

Dana Carvey

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

Gerard Depardieu

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

Giancarlo Esposito

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Ginnifer Goodwin

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Juliette Binoche

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

Jesse Eisenberg

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

Leslie Easterbrook

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

Lorrie Moore

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

Milos Forman

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Natasha Calis

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

Paul Dano

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

Sophia Bush

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

Toni Collette

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walter Benjamin