Character Quotes · Page 255

Viewers can hate a character and at the same time can't take their eyes off of him.

— John Slattery

True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

— Marquis de Sade

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

— Rebecca Mader

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

— Immanuel Kant

As long as I give my 100 percent to my character and I feel connected to it, I am happy.

— Sunny Singh

A man with character strengths is all that a woman not only admires, but feels deep respect for.

— Senora Roy

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy…

— Kirsten Dunst

People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one…

— Freddie Highmore

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said,…

— Julie Walters

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice…

— Scott Bradfield

I may have got a little carried away and many critics found fault with some aspects of the film, but as a…

— Gautham Menon

It's not what a person tells you that matters. It's how they treat you that reveals their true feelings. Their character is…

— Anonymous

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how…

— Marcello Lippi

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're…

— Robin McLeavy

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling…

— Kiki Smith

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused…

— Miles Millar

“The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is,…

— Terry Nardin

For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the…

— Loretta Devine

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of…

— David O. McKay

Having been a theater person first, you have the whole character, and you see the arc of the character in a play.…

— Brad Leland

I'm not Negan from 'The Walking Dead.' I'm not a character. I'm a human being.

— Tom Sandoval

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

— Hiro Murai

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

— Wentworth Miller

For me, as an actor, the challenge is mostly before the film starts when you have to get into the psychology of…

— Barun Sobti

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

— Herbert Spencer

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

— Evan Peters

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

— Wallace D. Wattles

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person…

— Mike Krzyzewski

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

— Dwight L. Moody

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their…

— Jefferson Davis

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

— Zoe Saldana

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

— Julie Kagawa

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

— Confucius

Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

— Labrinth

The devil is a fun character to play because he's everywhere and no where all the time.

— Eddie Griffin

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

— Oscar Wilde