Character Quotes · Page 253

I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.

— Mike Sherman

We need to show character whenever we concede a goal and try to make a comeback.

— Nicolas Anelka

I'm such a firm believer that everyone should see themselves in a character, and everyone should feel represented.

— Kiernan Shipka

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

— Amanda Seyfried

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

— David Walton

Once the scene is over, I come out of it. I don't carry the character with me for long as many actors…

— Nani

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

— Vincent Price

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.

— Samuel Johnson

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're…

— Colm Meaney

A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.…

— Richard Flanagan

If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of…

— Chris Meledandri

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming…

— Julian Fellowes

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not…

— Confucius

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding…

— George Eliot

My intention is always to honor the character that Lev [Grossman] created in the books and my greatest concern, honestly, is that…

— Hale Appleman

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound,…

— Martin Luther

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the…

— Rachel Kushner

When I'm hired just to be an actress, I don't have to worry about anything else but showing up on set, making…

— Paula Garces

“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends…

— Daniel Bell

The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be…

— Brian Tracy

'Blasto' is a new game for Sony Playstation. It's an awesome three-dimensional game, and I play the character Blasto who's sort of…

— Phil Hartman

Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle…

— Michael Josephson

The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair,…

— Charles Dickens

Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in…

— Oswald Avery

It feels good to be a couple of characters, sometimes in the same day.

— Penny Johnson Jerald

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”

— Richie Norton

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

— David Hare

I love the show 'Billions.' But the main character is basically a hedge fund scumbag, and he's the hero.

— Alissa Quart

I love that everyone on 'Scream Queens' has a moment where they are the hero, and they are the villain.

— Skyler Samuels

I don't want to play the same character again and again, because I'd get bored. If I get bored, so will the…

— Radhika Madan

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.

— Tim Burton

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

— Colleen Atwood

To be able to continue to be polite to those who are rude is a peak in good character that we should…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when…

— Anonymous

If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

— Izabella Scorupco

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

— Haruki Murakami

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.”

— Jonathan Kirsch

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

— Bette Midler