Nice Character Quotes

#1. I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.

Matt Berninger

#2. It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.

Candice Patton

#3. It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

Robbie Amell

#4. Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

Tatiana Maslany

#5. All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Gabriel Mann

#6. The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

Dan Castellaneta

#7. Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.

Colm Meaney

#9. I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

#10. It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.

Jeff Goldblum

#11. To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?

Leonardo DiCaprio

#12. For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#13. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

Miya Yamanouchi

#14. A rubbish word. One he hardly ever used. The word had no moral weight. A person didn't need courage for "nice." "Nice" called for no sacrifice, no strength of character. If only all he'd ever had to do was be nice . . .

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

Ken Osmond

#16. It was fun yet challenging to play the dual roles. I'm a really nice guy, and the character [of Dubious] is egocentric and hard-edged, so I had to pull out the negative aspects of me to attribute to the role.

Carson Grant

#17. It was nice to see someone who appreciated her for her character, no matter how disgusted Christian was by the idea of ANYONE dating his aunt. And I actually kind of liked seeing Christian so obviously tormented. It was good for him.

Richelle Mead

#18. You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.

Glen Mazzara

#19. The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#20. For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.

Jordana Spiro

#21. Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.

Nestor Carbonell

#22. You can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Alison Lurie

#23. I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

Vik Sahay

#24. It's nice to play a character who's written as a mixed race character and is not a drug addict.

Howard Charles

#25. The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

Gary Cole

#26. Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot ... and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#27. The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.

Ann Whitman

#28. There is a defined gulf
Between credit and character
If you doubt this, ask any banker;
He will advise that character is nice
But it is not collateral.

Evan Rhys

#29. I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

Halle Berry

#30. And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

Sandra Cisneros

#31. Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?

Jenna Marbles

#32. I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Robert Hunter

#33. Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.

Kasie West

#34. It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.

Michael Shanks

#35. I play a character in the WWE and everybody hates my character. I'm the evil villain bad guy. Whenever people meet me, they're like, 'Wow, you're such a nice guy. We never expected that.'

Chris Jericho

#36. But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.

Sienna Miller

#37. I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

Emma Roberts

#38. The uncle and cousin seem nice, but the aunt is a bit of a shock. Whith her hair dyed bright red, she looks like Ronald McDonald's post-menopausal sister. Who has let herself go.

Brian Malloy

#39. The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

Kevin Conroy

#40. It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Dag Hammarskjold

#41. I loved The Wind in the Willows ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.

Tasha Tudor

#42. The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Edward Gibbon

#43. People would be shocked to know ... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy.

James Lafferty

#44. A little girl thought I was mean like my character on 'Zoey,' and I convinced her that 'Logan' is just a fake character and I am really a nice guy.

Matthew Underwood

#45. 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Vince Gilligan

#46. I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Alan Alda

#47. Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

Nicholas Young

#48. The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.

MaryElizabeth Williams

#49. My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Alexander McCall Smith

#50. Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time. That's a character trait that we need more in Washington.

Shelley Moore Capito

#51. It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh. We came here without some key players but I must say our young players showed a lot of characters in the series which will help Sri Lanka cricket in the future.

Mahela Jayawardene

#52. People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice ... one of the nicest people I've ever met.

Freddie Highmore

#53. When I sign on to a television show [Mistresses], I have to love that show and character so much, but this was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.

Shannyn Sossamon

#54. 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.

Aidan Gillen

#55. Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

David Twohy

#56. John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions!

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

#57. It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

Oscar Isaac

#58. Nice. I like a little desperation in
a guy. It builds character.

Stacey Kade

#59. Sometimes I forget what I look like and I do something out of character, such as sing shepherd tunes in Aramaic while I'm waiting in line at Starbucks, but the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them.

Kevin Hearne

#60. Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

James Nesbitt

#61. The character of someone shouldn't be measured based on what they eat, drink or the way they dress. Character that commands following is more than demonstrating some 'nice', 'cute', 'appealing' behaviors. It is deeper than that!

Assegid Habtewold

#62. It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It's a really nice way to do it, but it doesn't happen very often.

Aaron Ashmore

#63. I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

Jane Gardam

#64. I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

Christopher Walken

#65. I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice.

Katie Finneran

#66. If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

Zooey Deschanel

#67. I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

Jon Favreau

#68. He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.

Jess C. Scott

#69. It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice

Fela Durotoye

#70. Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

Theodore Parker

#71. With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice and challenging.

Robert Pattinson

#72. It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.

Jim Carrey

#73. It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

Nick Frost

#74. It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

Habeeb Akande

#75. The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of characters.

Todd Haynes

#76. I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

Holliday Grainger

#77. It's rewarding for me to have people know me as two very different characters. I think when you see people as one character, you expect that they are like that character. So it's nice to be able to throw people for a loop a little bit.

Matt McGorry