Characters Quotes: Timeless Wisdom from Memorable Personalities

"When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model"

Eva Green, Actress

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools"

Erik Qualman, Author

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV"

Ashley Tisdale, Actress

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold"

Euripides, Poet

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity"

John F. Kennedy, President

"The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way"

William James, Philosopher

"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters"

Zach Braff, Actor

"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating"

John M. Ford, Writer

"Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there"

Laurence Fishburne, Actor

"The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes"

James Randi, Entertainer

"The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them"

Joel Coen, Director

"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit"

Christian Bale, Actor

"With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters"

Will Arnett, Actor

"I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters"

Uwe Boll, Director

"When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"I put heavy emphasis on the characters"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon"

William Devane, Actor

"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

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