Character Quotes · Page 184

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

— Alison Lohman

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

— Arnold Palmer

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

— Penn Badgley

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

— Bruce Lee

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

— Joseph Joubert

“The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.”

— Wendell Berry

I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

— Jose Iturbi

It's been eight years now that I have been working in Bollywood and have done everything - from item songs to character…

— Payal Rohatgi

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at…

— William Hazlitt

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what…

— Karen Allen

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big…

— Paul Klee

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me…

— R-Truth

We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, 'Mindhorn,' set on the Isle of Man, that every…

— Julian Barratt

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the…

— Santiago Calatrava

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the…

— Lawrence Taylor

Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem…

— Michael Bierut

Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.…

— Adam Beach

Carmen is an iconic character. I think everyone in the world knows of the existence of the story and the opera, even…

— Melissa Barrera

The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…

— E. M. Forster

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.…

— Luc de Clapiers

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient…

— James Hillman

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached…

— Ishmael Reed

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

— Sergio Leone

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character…

— Pankaj Tripathi

Look, I don't think villains are interesting when you can't tell where they're coming from.

— Leigh Bardugo

I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of…

— David Linley

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.

— Jim Nantz

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I work from my heart. When I look at the script, I need to feel myself in the character.

— Diljit Dosanjh

When a character of a person changes check the kind of friend he keep

— Chukwubuikem

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a…

— Clint Eastwood

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

As an actor you have to have the room to play and find the character.

— Simone Missick

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

— Joseph Joubert

Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

— Orrin Woodward