Character Quotes · Page 137

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

— Blake Lively

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

— Rick Barnett

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

— Sayed Badreya

“I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.”

— Bauvard

Character and fate are two words for the same thing

— Novalis

My own character as Gill Bhai is my favorite.

— Binnu Dhillon

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

— Josh Schwartz

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

— Edward Young

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

— James Salter

“Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.”

— Timothy B. Tyson

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

— Katrina Kaif

We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.

— Ben Kingsley

I think that Miley is getting a chance to be who she really is, after years of having to be a fictional…

— Brandi Cyrus

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

— John Harrison

“Sometimes I don't know if Zelda isn't a character that I created myself.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot…

— A. Powell Davies

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

— Eddy de Clercq

I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same…

— Emma Kenney

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

— Keeley Hawes

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on…

— Elizabeth Reaser

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying…

— Loretta Swit

“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and…

— Rollo May

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to…

— Jennifer Beals

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist…

— Neil Gaiman

I care about Roger Sterling, one of the most subtle and amazing characters in dramatic history ["Mad Men"]. This guys who knows…

— Chris Matthews

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English…

— Allegra Huston

I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from…

— Andre Gide

Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make…

— Lily Rabe

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and…

— James Cromwell

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

— Aristotle

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

— Seneca the Younger

I don't take characters home with me.

— Sissy Spacek

I'm not a character in any of my books.

— Truman Capote

The characters in 'Gavin & Stacey' do like each other.

— Ruth Jones

I just always look for stuff that has a character-driven thing.

— Jay Roach

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

— Publilius Syrus

Morals are three-quarters manners.

— Felix Frankfurter