Character Quotes · Page 232

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

— James Anthony Froude

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

— Manuel Puig

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

— Lindsey Shaw

“You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”

— James Anthony Froude

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

— Anonymous

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

— Thomas More

It's just really so important for an actor to be in the right costume for their character.

— Camila Morrone

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments,…

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a…

— Joseph Joubert

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far…

— Felix Adler

“when you face disappointments and trials in life, your response dictates the character that will be created in you as a result.”

— Spencer Fraseur

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't…

— Park Chan-wook

[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin…

— Tom Felton

I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works…

— Joshua Reynolds

In terms of jumping into a characters skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring…

— Dougray Scott

“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works…

— Jane Austen

Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat,…

— Ben Marcus

In writing 'Meadowlark,' I learned about using my own emotional experiences and filtering them through the story of another character. By tapping…

— Stephen Schwartz

Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others…

— John Stuart Mill

The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies…

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be…

— Oswald Chambers

In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the…

— Ian Anderson

I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character.…

— Nathan Fielder

We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals.

— Nigel Hawthorne

The courage is the collective strength of heart, mind and soul, but the character plays its key role.

— Anuj Somany

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

— Katherine Webb

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

— Stephen King

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

— George Washington

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

— Homer

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

— Angad Bedi

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

— Lil' Kim

All beautiful persons are not good, but good persons are always beautiful.

— Anonymous

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

— Ti West

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

— Joss Whedon

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

— Michael Ian Black

“All we have left, when all is said and done, is the content of our character and our most cherished relationships.”

— James P. Krehbiel