Character Quotes · Page 189

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

— Forest Whitaker

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

— Anushka Shetty

We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.

— Letitia James

Condemnation campaigns can and do work, even in conditions where one thinks there are no morals left.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For me, I have always looked for a challenging look and I genuinely don't look at the length of the role. All…

— Vatsal Sheth

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all…

— Adepero Oduye

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got…

— Joel Edgerton

When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally…

— Rachel Weisz

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So…

— Alan Alda

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy…

— John Travolta

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

I think the universal themes of "American Pie" are what make it attractive to everybody. How to people relate to these characters?…

— Chris Klein

It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had…

— Molly Antopol

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,…

— Henry Fielding

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't…

— Mike Tyson

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to…

— Janina Gavankar

“The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one’s…

— Anonymous

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up…

— Anonymous

Yuki: What could I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn't even know that Jason isn't really a bear! He's…

— Natsuki Takaya

I longed for people to forget Parvathy and remember my character. That has finally happened in Malayalam.

— Parvathy

“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

— Hugh B. Brown

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

— Eric Hoffer

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

— Frank Vincent

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

— Anne Lamott

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

— Henry Fielding

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

— Dwyane Wade

Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.

— Allison Janney

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

— Jazmine Sullivan

“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

— Ban Ki-moon

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

— Kevin Kline

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

— Rodrigo Santoro

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

— Randy Alcorn

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and…

— William Westmoreland