Character Quotes · Page 258

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

— Frank Bruno

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

Not many know, but the costumes of your character can really help you to get into the skin of the character.

— Amrita Rao

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

— Sydney J. Harris

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like…

— Greg Berlanti

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

— Patricia Clarkson

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it,…

— Anonymous

The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your…

— Bob Jones, Sr

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We have a moral obligation to meet this challenge head-on. Human trafficking is an assault on our most dearly held values of…

— John Kerry US Secretary Of State

For modeling, I was always creating characters. I dress like a tomboy. So, when I'd go into a shoot, there'd be all…

— Agyness Deyn

Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious,…

— Dave Hickey

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the…

— Robert Paul Weston

Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who…

— Miroslav Penkov

“The private realm of the household was the sphere where the necessities of life, of individual survival as well as of continuity…

— Hannah Arendt

“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the…

— Eugene Asa Carr

I think one of my big skills is making unlikable characters likable or real in some way. No matter how hateful people…

— Allison Janney

Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the…

— Toni Morrison

I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they…

— Alice Neel

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare…

— Samuel Gompers

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

— David Ambrose

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

— James N. Frey

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the…

— Paul Auster

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you end up growing a character too quickly, you don't have anywhere to go after that point.

— Ray Fisher

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

— Russell Hornsby

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

— Livy

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

— Mark Twain

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

— Mia Wasikowska

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price…

— Omari Hardwick

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

— John Chrysostom

“If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.”

— Anthony Liccione