Character Quotes · Page 249

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

— Raoul Dufy

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

When something has soul, it doesn't matter that the character is different from you.

— Shira Haas

Were all born with the same size soul, everyone is born good. It's choices along the bumpy road of life that changes…

— Anonymous

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

— Brendan Fehr

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

— Nick Saban

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

— Virginia Wade

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's live television. People make mistakes and Steve Harvey was very gracious to apologize. I accept his apology and I think it…

— Pia Wurtzbach

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little…

— Kathy Bates

“He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn’t even a mercenary have morals? That’s the textbook definition of a whore!”

— Nadia Scrieva

If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a…

— Warwick Davis

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins.…

— Eva Green

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene…

— Sam Mendes

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because…

— E. G. Marshall

“We have an idea of what is right or wrong. And we can debate moral issues as ideas. But moral *standards* are…

— Karl Marlantes

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal -…

— Val Kilmer

I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is…

— Ray Romano

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always…

— Stephen Covey

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled…

— Dean Koontz

Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the…

— Carl Hiaasen

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other…

— Jeremy Irons

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

— Charles Frazier

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

— David Antin

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

— Robert Cray

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

It's not who we are that defines us, it's what we do to others that defines our personality, our image, our soul.

— Anonymous

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

— Zac Efron

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

Starting over isn't easy, but the character it builds, helps build you.

— Anonymous

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

— Julian Barnes

Some people may fool you for the moment, but be patient and see what happens. A person true colors will always show…

— Anonymous