Quotes of: Character Keyword

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

Annette Bening

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A ...

James Cameron

I'm a character actor at heart.

Shuler Hensley

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

Henry Drummond

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

George Santayana

Character is plot, plot is character.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I really love being a character actor.

Missi Pyle

Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.

Creating Excellent Relationships: The Power of Character Choices

When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.

On Character and Mental Toughness

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.

Marc Jacobs

It is never too late to show true character.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

Omari Hardwick

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from th...

Cheryl Hines

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

Dana Carvey

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there ...

Ellen Pompeo

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in ...

Adhir Kalyan

I was watching the last season of 'Mad Men,' and they're now so in their characters and they're so comfortable in their characters, and they're doing such good work. That can only happen from doing it over and over, and developing a character over se...

James Frain

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytellin...

Tatiana Maslany

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the...

Anne Beatts

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit ...

Matt Groening