Character Quotes · Page 178

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special…

— Tillie Olsen

A story isn't interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.

— Alexis Bledel

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

— Sidney Mohede

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

— Ann Whitman

“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”

— John Geddes

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

— John Wimber

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

— William Hazlitt

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

— Pia Zadora

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might…

— Timothy Spall

I loved all the characters I've gotten to play. Mary Cherry will always be my most favorite and always have a place…

— Leslie Grossman

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men…

— Oscar Wilde

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and…

— Kevin Spacey

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way…

— Stellan Skarsgard

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present…

— Alaa Al Aswany

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of…

— John Bowring

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this…

— Emile Durkheim

I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to…

— Valerie Azlynn

Filmmaking in general is about feeling and not about theory. You need to know a lot of rules about filmmaking: character development,…

— Hany Abu-Assad

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and…

— Catherine Hicks

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“(Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that…

— Anonymous

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in…

— Edmund White

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to…

— Samuel Smiles

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

— Rio Ferdinand

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

— William Shakespeare

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

— Dave Rowntree

“I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.”

— Maralee McKee

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

— Shawnee Smith

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

— Bill Skarsgard

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

— Catherine Mary Stewart

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

— Felicity Jones

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

— Dan Fogler

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

— Tim McIlrath

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

— Patrick Henry

I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'

— Omari Hardwick

Challenges are what inspire me. I therefore accept whatever comes my way, be it supporting roles or character roles.

— Rajpal Yadav

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

— Martin Short