Character Quotes · Page 208

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue.

— Michelle Fairley

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

— Shinichi Suzuki

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

— Rena Sofer

When I joined 'Kumkum,' I was excited because the character had grey shades.

— Hiten Tejwani

Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

— Gail Carriger

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

— Chris Cornell

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

— George Bernard Shaw

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors…

— Swami Vivekananda

Some parts stay with me for weeks afterward. It's these people that I play. They get under my skin, and I just…

— Cloris Leachman

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait.…

— Sonia Sanchez

Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to…

— Max Anders

Bruce sees in this character - who fought all the way through "Superheavy" when his parents were missing, and now is determined…

— Scott Snyder

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience…

— Sam Levinson

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him.…

— Paul Dano

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the…

— Aidan Gillen

The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get…

— Jan Brett

I think you should identify with your character, but plenty of people like themselves and hate themselves. You just have to find…

— Peter Vack

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We…

— Aristotle

“Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape…

— Donalyn Miller

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free…

— Bruce Lee

When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong.…

— L. Todd Rose

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is…

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who…

— Richard M. Nixon

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

— Christina Ricci

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

— Shaun Evans

As an actress, we are supposed to morph into another character and that's the fun.

— Pooja Batra

“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

— Michael Emerson

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

— Fran Drescher

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

— John Wooden

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

— Voltaire

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

— Sean Hayes

“Standard is not the money you have nor the creed you belong to ,truly IT IS CHARACTER…”

— Zainab Asif

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character.…

— William Fichtner

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

— Matthew Fox