Character Quotes · Page 204

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

It is easier to change rivers and mountains than human character.

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

— Audrey Tautou

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

— Elizabeth Montagu

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

— Paul Raci

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

— River Phoenix

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

— Dave East

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality…

— Charles Kingsley

Don't pretend to be someone your not. It is better to suffer being who you are than it is to suffer trying…

— Anonymous

To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and…

— Haile Gerima

I believe shooting chronologically gives you a very fresh perspective and you're always aware of where you are in the development of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the…

— Edward Gibbon

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job…

— Gil Gerard

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is…

— Ambrose Bierce

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing…

— Edmund Burke

“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and…

— Michael J. Sandel

I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and…

— Brendan Fraser

I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has…

— Jennifer Aniston

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

No matter what you set out to do and how you set out to do it, you ultimately have to be who…

— Dennis Haysbert

I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of…

— Vera Nazarian

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

— Jefferson Mays

“THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE...”

— VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA

You show your character through the good times and the bad times and for me it's just about being professional.

— Jared Dudley

“A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's”

— Jean Paul Richter

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

— Elizabeth Moon

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

— T. Harv Eker

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

— Cam Gigandet

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

— Bergen Evans

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

— Derwin L. Gray

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

— Jessica Capshaw

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

— Thomas Browne