Character Definition Quotes

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

There is more than just words to define a person.

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything about the main female character is defined by men.

The bikini scenes in 'Billa' were vital because they showed me as a seductress. I'd like to say here that outfits define a character and help an actor, say, 30 per cent, the rest depends on one's histrionic skills.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

We are defined by our weak moments.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

Nia Jax is Nia Jax. That's something that I have been trying to get across. I am who I am in the moment. I'm not a heel. I'm not a babyface. I'm Nia Jax.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

I am who I am and who I try to be - someone who loves wrestling and loves people.

The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

I don't want my title to define my character. I don't think, as a president, I will change.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's an expectation for what you're going to see out of a certain character.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.