Character Quotes · Page 207

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

— Stephen Hillenburg

People will Hate you, Break you, Rate you, Shake you down, but how strong you stand makes you who you really are.

— Kings

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

— Jonathan Swift

It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome…

— Kyle Cassie

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

— Phyllis Bottome

In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.

— Song Hye-kyo

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

— John Ruskin

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for…

— Elizabeth Gillies

I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and…

— Pablo Schreiber

'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different…

— Barry Jenkins

You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will…

— Evan Peters

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be…

— Henry David Thoreau

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together…

— Sarah Lancashire

“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of…

— C.S. Lewis

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned…

— Hunter S. Thompson

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a…

— Agnes Repplier

Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better…

— Eric Liu

I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth…

— Molly Antopol

I think in television and film, it's not usually the child's point of view. It's the story of an adult. If there's…

— George R. R. Martin

You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road. One single episode that might seem so…

— Amanda Schull

Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character…

— Josh Hutcherson

I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being - either you like them or you don't. You…

— Katherine Waterston

Obviously, when you're in theater, you have to be in character. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be…

— Matthew Lewis

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

— Ellie Kendrick

“I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.”

— Dennis Lehane

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

— Charles Dickens

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

— August Alsina

“How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is…

— Shannon L. Alder

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this…

— Patrick Warburton

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.”

— Alfa

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

— George Marsden

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

— Thomas Jefferson

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

— Tom Barbash

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type.

— Roman Reigns

“Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer