Character Quotes · Page 242

“I am a character in someone's book whose end has not yet been written”

— MBarreto Condado

To get a connection to your characters, you have to put them in a situation that you can feel yourself.

— Michael Connelly

I am proud to have played so many non-urban characters because I feel the heart of real India beats in the non-urban…

— Vikrant Massey

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

— Jamie O'Neill

If fans consider me a heartthrob, I think it has more to do with the kind of characters that I have played.

— Kartik Aaryan

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

— Shiri Appleby

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

— Jean M. Auel

“Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because…

— Berenice Bejo

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to…

— Michel de Montaigne

When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of…

— Jonathan Tropper

I am always interested in characters who are in these kinds of transitional moments in their lives, when it's not clear where…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are…

— Stephen King

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with…

— Steven Seagal

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,…

— Charles Kingsley

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming-…

— Christopher Paolini

“It’s too easy to feed the anger. Too cowardly to stoke the hate. You must look inside yourself and decide who you…

— Louise Penny

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and…

— Dennis Farina

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is…

— Roger Zelazny

At a certain age you start becoming brave enough to reveal yourself and it's the revealing of who you are that enables…

— Glynn Turman

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest…

— Novalis

I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's…

— John Herschel

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

— John Densmore

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

— Vik Sahay

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

— Brigit of Kildare

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

— Lauren Groff

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

— Zoe Kazan

“Death is not one of our social managements; it is a scene with one character.”

— Michel de Montaigne

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.

— Alex Borstein

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

— Amy Jackson

Never regret for being faithful and honest as these are the rare qualities and are not found easily these days.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

— Karl Kraus

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

— Adolf Hitler

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

— Gabourey Sidibe

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

— Joshuah Bearman

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

— John Noble

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

— Ben Jonson