Quotes about Action and Character

There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing. Votes: 3

Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action. Votes: 2

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut. Votes: 2

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action. Votes: 2

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. Votes: 2

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution. Votes: 2

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. Votes: 2

I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome. Votes: 2

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends. Votes: 2

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end. Votes: 2

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star. Votes: 2

With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt! Votes: 2

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. Votes: 2

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions. Votes: 2

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters. Votes: 2

I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before. Votes: 2

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient. Votes: 2

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience. Votes: 2

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'. Votes: 2

The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something. Votes: 2

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation. Votes: 2

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. Votes: 1

Action is character. Votes: 0

plot is character in action. Votes: 0

Character is ethics in action. Votes: 0

Leadership is character in action. Votes: 0

Character is revealed through action. Votes: 0

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. Votes: 0

But in action, one defies one's character. Votes: 0

You character and action will reveal your purpose. Votes: 0

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character Votes: 0

Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action. Votes: 0

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character. Votes: 0

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development. Votes: 0

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL Votes: 0

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. Votes: 0

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. Votes: 0

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. Votes: 0

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before. Votes: 0

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action. Votes: 0

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.' Votes: 0

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture. Votes: 0

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. Votes: 0

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. Votes: 0

I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero. Votes: 0

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action. Votes: 0

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be. Votes: 0

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. Votes: 0

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. Votes: 0

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting. Votes: 0

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible. Votes: 0

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. Votes: 0

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. Votes: 0

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do Votes: 0

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do. Votes: 0

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you. Votes: 0

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. Votes: 0

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past. Votes: 0

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. Votes: 0

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor. Votes: 0

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. Votes: 0

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character. Votes: 0

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. Votes: 0

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. Votes: 0

Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons. Votes: 0

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action. Votes: 0

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president. Votes: 0

Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. Votes: 0

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. Votes: 0

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. Votes: 0

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game. Votes: 0

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique. Votes: 0

When we look at films, we usually see only the action. Yet it is the decision to act that helps us understand how the character's mind works. Votes: 0

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. Votes: 0

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character. Votes: 0

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters. Votes: 0

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new. Votes: 0

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy. Votes: 0

Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned. Votes: 0

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action. Votes: 0

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay. Votes: 0

I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character. Votes: 0

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that. Votes: 0