- Nov 07, 2020
Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you live with a character longer, you claim more ownership over it. You become more defensive of it. It becomes like a person that you know.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this character, Theo Galavan, who becomes the ringleader for the revolution of villainy in the city of Gotham. He becomes this mentor figure for Jerome that really inspires him to go off the deep end, and it's really fun.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He's this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He's skirted the line between lawful and completely chaotic or villainous. He's risen and fallen multiple times in the ways that pretty much no other character can dream of.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never a moment where I was intentionally cribbing from another actor. More so, I grew up watching other actors design the character of The Joker to me, and obviously, the part was paying tribute to The Joker, and so I wanted to, you know, perform it to the best of my abilities in a way that it seemed to be paying homage to the character.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I can tell you is I'm going to be myself. I'm not the type of person that is going to develop into some character or come up with some phrase I will always say.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
- Estimated
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020