Quotes about Character, page 4

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, It's in the script. If he says, But what's my motivation?, I say, Your salary.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about character

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about character

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

Quote by Mick Jagger about character

Optical Character Recognition is good comedy.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about character

Every character has an aspect that can and will be insulted and ridiculed at length.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about character

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true, and this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Quote by George Oppen about character

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

Quote by Clive Owen about character

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

Quote by Clive Owen about character

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Quote by Thomas Paine about character

Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us.

Quote by Thomas Paine about character

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down, or speed up.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about character

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Quote by Brian De Palma about character

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story

Quote by Brian De Palma about character

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Quote by Arnold Palmer about character

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano about character

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Quote by Evan Parker about character

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Quote by Theodore Parker about character

We got into it, we created all these other characters, it was going to be an Easter episode actually, a year ago.

Quote by Trey Parker about character

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about character

When you do a play seven or eight times a week, you have to let yourself listen to the character's interior conversation.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about character