Character Quotes · Page 199

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

— Maria Mitchell

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

— Laurence Olivier

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

— Robert Cailliau

“It was striking, the character of destruction. It was always diverse”

— Richard Ford

In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.

— Vivek Agnihotri

“If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.”

— Orrin Woodward

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

— Rob James-Collier

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

— Christopher Markus

My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension…

— Micah Perks

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's…

— Griffin Dunne

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and…

— Terrell Owens

As an actor, I need to convince the audience that the character that I'm playing is real, and the situation that this…

— Ok Taec-yeon

Mine's the fun amount of OCD. The party amount! Just enough to give you a little teeny bit of character, but you…

— Will Forte

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality,…

— Shelby Foote

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not…

— Diane Kruger

“Kant was right; morality did in the eighteenth century, as a matter of historical fact, presuppose something very like the teleological scheme…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if…

— Albert Camus

I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their…

— Karen Allen

I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut…

— Edan Lepucki

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the…

— Washington Irving

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the…

— Cate Blanchett

Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope…

— Frank Oz

“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity…

— Shannon Alder

I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.

— Megan Thee Stallion

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

— James Buchan

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

“But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.”

— Joe Queenan

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character.

— Pericles

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers

“Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.”

— K. Howard Joslin

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

— Mae West

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

— Brady Corbet

Avram is a character. Sitting in team meetings, you realise what a positive person and manager he is.

— Wayne Bridge

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

— Augustus Hare

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

— Samuel Larsen

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

— Grant Morrison

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

— Friedrich Nietzsche