Character Quotes · Page 229

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

— Brandon Sanderson

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

— Erwin McManus

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

— Sean Bean

My very favorite costumed character I've played would be Abe Sapien from the 'Hell Boy' movies. I love this guy.

— Doug Jones

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

— Karin Slaughter

'Coronation Street' was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn't used to everyone looking at me.

— Joanne Froggatt

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

— Shiri Appleby

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

— Christoph Waltz

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where…

— Edward Kennedy

Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters…

— Colm Meaney

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

This will sound funny coming out of my mouth, but I like to play characters that have an intelligence. It doesn't matter…

— Jon Hamm

That's a discovery process. That's the terrifying and wonderful part about getting picked up to series. You get to develop the stories…

— Chuck Lorre

I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her…

— Berenice Bejo

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way…

— Robin Wright

I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social…

— Mora Stephens

Moe's the first character that I played that actually allowed me to embrace all parts of myself, including my physical appearance, the…

— Kiana Madeira

I think that the most important thing for me is, how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it…

— Julia Garner

I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable…

— Ben Whishaw

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend…

— William Gibson

I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to…

— Zendaya

Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass…

— William James

Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight…

— Mekhi Phifer

“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined…

— Albert Einstein

“Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must”

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

— James Anthony Froude

“There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel”

— Vladimir Lenin

If the character you play on screen has to have life, you should dub in your own voice.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

“Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.”

— William James Moore

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

— Jean Paul

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

— Neil Tennant

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.

— Reese Hoffa

People have certain expectations from me, and I want to do different characters.

— Disha Patani

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

— Ayn Rand

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

— Amanda Hearst

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

In 'SOTY2,' I played a character which was my age, a lot like how I am as a person.

— Ananya Panday

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

— Joyce Meyer

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

— Plutarch

“It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr