Character Quotes · Page 185

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

— Yvonne Strahovski

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

— Alfred Molina

“Remember that your reputation is made by others, but your character is made by you!”

— Napoleon Hill (Author

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

— David Sedaris

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

— John Lasseter

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

— Julie Andrews

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

— Evangeline Lilly

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

— Dick Schaap

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as…

— Vera Farmiga

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

— Kelli O'Hara

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is…

— Peter Bondra

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top…

— Jon Lovitz

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or…

— Jaggi Vasudev

I was in WCW 20 odd years ago and people really didn't like the character I did at the time. It was…

— William Regal

It's our job as actors to make it look like it's not manufactured. If you have two actors who understand their characters…

— Henry Cavill

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is…

— Etgar Keret

The '80s just had this sense of outrageous fun coupled with great stories and characters. Then there's the practical effects and buckets…

— Neil Marshall

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public…

— Maxine Cheshire

Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital,…

— Elizabeth Dole

“Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The…

— Michel Houellebecq

“There were four types of borers; those who dug for treasures to sell via the city’s few stores, those who dug to…

— Angela Armstrong

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside,…

— Sara Shepard

Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution…

— Elias Lyman Magoon

I play Father Francis in 'The Exorcist Prequel.' It's fantastic. We are shooting in Morrocco and Rome. Paul Schrader is directing; Stellan…

— Gabriel Mann

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

— Theodore Parker

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

— Catherine O'Hara

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.

— Ben Jonson

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

— Hal Hartley

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

— Al Gore

“Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

— John Wooden

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.

— Alan Ritchson

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s…

— Frank Turek

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes what appears to be a difficult ethical quandary is simply the product of ignorance about your options.”

— John Kroger