Best Character Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When you're really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere and realize that they don't look like you, or they don't speak like you, you start wanting to change who you are. That's something that I did when I was a young kid.”

“I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.”

“I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.”

“I have a thing for working with wounded characters.”

“I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'”

“The Situation' - my name, or my character - is known worldwide now.”

“I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.”

“I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.”

“My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.”

“When things get complicated, you have to bring out your character and put more wood on the fire.”

“I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.”

“The period characters I have played have all been these wonderfully forward-thinking women.”

“Wonder Woman is such an amazing character.”

“Wonder Woman is very much her own character. She thinks big.”

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.”

“I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.”

“In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas 'Sex And The City' had these characters where the women had their own independent stories.”

“Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.”

“One of the reasons why I like making and watching TV is that time allows you to be discursive and digressive and go to weird places and spend time with characters in a nuanced and complex way.”

“If you go back to the '80s, I didn't really know much about the characters. I knew what they did in the ring. I knew Hogan went off and spouted lots of crazy promos, and Ultimate Warrior did the same. They really were just characters.”

“I actually have a piece of the wardrobe of most of the characters that I've played. I always ask for something.”

“I believe what makes great television is wanting to watch particular characters.”

“Any character, for me, always comes together in the hair, makeup, and wardrobe. Shoes especially. For some reason, shoes really do it for me because they help me figure out how the character walks.”

“I do what I can, but I'll always give it a shot. You're not going to see me playing a Welsh character any time soon, not because I wouldn't love to. I went up to Wales once and read for a film with Rhys Ifans, and haven't been asked back since. We did have a nice time on the train on the way back.”

“I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength.”

“There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.”

“Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.”

“When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.”

“Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.”

“I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own.”

“Sometimes what you turn out may be just a performance, but sometimes what you create will change the way people think about a play, character or situation for the rest of their lives. We don't have to be happy about it - we just have to do it well. That's why acting is not a trade; it's a vocation.”

“I am known for always playing virtuous characters.”

“I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.”

“At its core, our military is comprised of service members who are proud of their country and are willing to go to great lengths to protect American virtues of liberty and justice. I was one of them.”

“Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.”

“Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.”

“Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.”

“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.”

“Virtue makes the world better.”

“I'm not a virtue signaler.”

“My favourite virtue is not having any.”

“Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.”

“I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.”

“Cheapness is a great virtue.”

“Failing to see the point is not a virtue.”

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.”

“True virtue is life under the direction of reason.”

“Too much virtue can be criminal.”

“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”

“In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.”

“Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.”

“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”

“Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.”

“Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.”

“Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.”

“You live vicariously through your characters.”

“In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.”

“Iowa is speckled with vibrant communities like Wilton, each with its own character and its own story to tell.”

“I have done versatile characters from the beginning of my career.”

“The only thing I have tried to do is be a part of different films and bring out a different side of me as an actor every time I play a character. I would like to be known as a versatile actor.”

“I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.”

“I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.”

“I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.”

“I love Octavia Spencer. I love what she has to say as a human, and I love her career and the variety of characters she has played.”

“I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.”

“I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.”

“A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.”

“I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.”

“Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.”

“The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.”

“Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.”

“A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.”

“I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters.”

“One of the things that upset me a lot, and I'm pretty open about it is people that challenge my character or challenge my commitment to my job or the game that I play.”

“There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out in this role.”

“My parents are very unusual characters, both of them - they're both only children, and they're great, but neither of them are the sort of standard idea of a parent, and not of Jewish parents.”

“Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you're trying to discover a character and actualize it.”

“I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.”

“Timothy McGee was unlike any character I had ever played before but I had a very clear idea of who he was.”

“'Heroes' was such a big production. When I was there in the second season, it had been expanded so much. Fans of the series will remember, and many of them were upset about it, but they had expanded so many new characters that they were actually running two different units.”

“I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.”

“There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.”

“I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.”

“There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.”

“Mr. Peabody was such a rich character, but he was unexplored. There was a lot they couldn't get to in a four and half minute short. It seemed like there was a bigger idea there.”

“Being a part of 'Mothoon' was unexpectedly character-building.”

“I don't think my dad understood my character as a child growing up.”

“With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.”

“Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.”

“People who are underprivileged build more than just character.”

“There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'”

“Don't underestimate the character of a Welshman.”

“I don't underestimate anybody and I think Morales is capable of giving a good fight.”

“Every character that I write is kind of an anti-heroine in a way. Not because I'm like, I need to write an anti-heroine. But I'm just like, let me write something interesting and unconventional to the point that they're dangerous, whether it's physically or her ideas of who she is.”

“I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.”

“I am comfortable in my character's skin. I am uncomfortable being in my own skin.”

“Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.”

“I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?”

“I thought, 'Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?' And it was like, 'Yeah, I'd love to be able to say stuff like that.'”

“I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.”