Character Quotes · Page 206

You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.

— Michael Ealy

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

— Rachael Stirling

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

— Forest Whitaker

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

— Scott Snyder

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

— Heinrich Heine

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

— Peter Mayhew

“If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a…

— Confucius

I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character…

— Richard Linklater

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty…

— Connie Nielsen

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or…

— Hannah Tointon

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the…

— Jon Stewart

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I knew Berlin would have to become a kind of character in my new book, 'In the Garden of Beasts'. I had…

— Erik Larson

It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on…

— Hannah Simone

“Fine sermons have been preached on the text that those who have should share with those who have not, but he who…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to…

— Haruki Murakami

“Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might…

— Andrew Ashling

I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the…

— Barbara Padilla

There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do.…

— Forest Whitaker

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral…

— Matt Taibbi

One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of…

— David B. Haight

I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and…

— Carey Mulligan

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

— Kelly Lynch

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after…

— Gary D. Schmidt

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

— Natalie Portman

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.

— Blaise Pascal

If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.

— Jerry Springer

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

— Alan Arkin

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

Some people don't get it, but I think there's something fascinating about a character who's obsessed with power.

— Naomi Ackie

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

— Cate Blanchett

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

“Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;”

— Molière

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

— Lee Corso

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

— James Allen

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

— Andy Stanley