Character Quotes · Page 216

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

— Bill Pullman

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

— Jeanne Moreau

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

— Noel Gallagher

“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

— William Shakespeare

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

— Alexa Vega

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or…

— Dylan Moran

Hathiram Choudhary is a vulnerable, intense and deep character. Like every common man, he just wants to prove himself and better himself.…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but…

— Steve Carell

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great…

— Elijah Wood

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great…

— Channing Tatum

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the…

— George Orwell

When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which…

— Lisa Joy

When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter…

— Richard Bach

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we…

— Henry David Thoreau

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not…

— Samuel Adams

Many people are under the delusion that I'm just a special-effects man, but I've worn many different hats in my day. On…

— Ray Harryhausen

I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never…

— Danny Huston

A character does seem to have a life of its own, but I have what I'd describe as a very fluid relationship…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where…

— Molly Haskell

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call…

— Philip Pullman

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

— Tacitus

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

— Radha Mitchell

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

— Anonymous

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

— Tom Clancy

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

— George Eliot

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who…

— Nat Wolff

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon

“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to…

— C.S. Lewis

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

— Confucius

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

— Kiara Advani

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

— Lambert of Maastricht