"I don't know what the big issue is about it [a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things]. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it."
Denise RichardsCharacter is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich NietzscheCharacter builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
Faith BaldwinCharacter is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George SantayanaMan may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. - as her character Carrie in Sex And The City.
Sarah Jessica ParkerA child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
James S ColemanHistory is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.
Donald CreightonI feel I only have three quarters of the character [on turning up for a role]
Margi ClarkeYou can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran LebowitzThere are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy GiulianiThe American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
Mary McCarthyI just want to do something risque for my debut, purely because I didn't want to make an entrance being the pretty, sweet type that I've been seen as for the last 3 years. - referring to her character Flick in Neighbours
Holly ValanceI may play the fool at times but I'm a little more than just a pretty blonde girl with an ass that won't quit. [on Friends character, Phoebe]
Lisa KudrowI never try to completely do a character, if you know what I mean. I always feel like I'm just being me, but in the character's situation.
Jonny Lee MillerWhen 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.'
Alfred HitchcockIf you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
Michael EisnerActually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.
Steve BurtonCharacter is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
David HumeHigh aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon EdwardsYou get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.
David Lloyd GeorgeAll of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
GalbraithYour outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day...
Orison Swett MardenI loved making Rising Sun. I got into the psychology of why [the character] liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-esteem.
Tatjana PatitzSincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character
James Russell LowellThey remind me a bit of Laurel and Hardy - in that they are different characters who complement each other nicely
[on Flintoff and Strauss]
Shane WarneBy depriving the charged person of any defenses means that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterise it.
Robert BorkA person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg LichtenbergI can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.
David CoulthardThis has been a very hard decision for me to make, because I'm so happy here on EastEnders, but it's been a long time without a proper break, and I just feel some time off would be good for me, and probably the character too. [on taking a break from Eastenders]
Barbara WindsorYour morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy.
Franklin BuchananIn words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
PlutarchIt is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.
Justin GatlinHe's a good person and tennis wise he's not bad, but our characters don't fit together. He's a bit too soft for me. I'll be looking for someone else after this tournament. [on dumping her coach]
Nadia Petrova'some of the lines that I say on the show well I will say it or I think I know how to say it, then someone like James or someone else will come up to me and say you dont know what that means do you? For example the term walking your dog... not got a clue even my Dad knows I don't get it which is embarrassing' - Katie talking about how there are times when she doesn't know what her character's talking about!
Katie HolmesAn actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
Arthur LoweDreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David ThoreauRemarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think Graham Thorpe's a massive part of England's summer, especially coming up against Australia. He's the sort of character they are going to desperately need.
Rob KeyWords have all sorts of characteristics and abilities, the simplest of words can hide a complex scene unravelling underneath it.
Bobbie GentryWe loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake (Character of the late Dr S. Annesley)
Daniel DefoeI started doing some acoustic things. When my character was out at sea on a tanker, running his fleet, he'd just noodle around on his guitar. So I did an Eric Clapton song, and then I wrote a song to be used as a theme for a story line. That's how it started.
Jack WagnerAlthough cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.
Dorothy DenningMaya is hellbent on revenge. She cannot accept Dev has chosen Sunita instead of her. [on her Corrie character]
Sasha BeharI believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.
MorrisseyOne woman reads another's character
Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
Ben JonsonThe chancellor has a Macavity quality. He is not there when there is dirty work to be done. [attacking Gordon Brown's character and personality]
Lord TurnbullI kinda see him as an ordinary everyday schizophrenic psychopath. [on his character]
Brian CapronWhen you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice HoffmanI don't drink or smoke and I don't like smoky places. I once drank half a pint and I was drunk. When I'm drunk I tell stupid jokes about sex and it's really not me this other character comes out and I don't like him. I tried it for a while to get in with the lads but couldn't hack it.
Benjamin ZephaniahThoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards
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