Character Quotes · Page 259

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

— Christopher Walken

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

— Seth Gordon

Movies made back in the day would have a single scene that defined what the character was all about.

— Zayed Khan

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

— Austin O'Malley

There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

— Bob Coy

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

— John Hurt

Now a days beauty is doesn't matter because some of them they like their good character,,not physical attraction..

— Mariane Corbito

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

— Taryn Manning

“The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think…

— James Franco

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice…

— John Tillotson

“Everything is in the process of being forgotten. But who we are—who we have been in mood, in personality, in character—persists much…

— Jolene Brackey

I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

Prepping for any character is the most important thing because if you don't know how she walks, talks or thinks, you can't…

— Tripti Dimri

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to…

— Aristotle

It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively…

— Anonymous

I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought…

— Katherine Moennig

A funny thing about film is that it's the only medium where people say there are really rules that you have to…

— Steven Knight

Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I…

— Karen Traviss

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for…

— Anais Nin

I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did…

— Janel Moloney

Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King…

— Louie Gohmert

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any…

— Timothy Keller

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

— Claude Lelouch

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

— Richard M. Nixon

“Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986”

— Anonymous

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

— David Henry Hwang

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

— Bhagat Singh

My character was in 'Raya and the Last Dragon' for a second, but that's a win for all trans-kind.

— Patti Harrison

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every time I finish a job I seem to want to dress in totally the opposite way to the character.

— Phoebe Dynevor

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

— Diana Krall

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

— E. W. Howe

To admit mistake is courage and virtue of strong character, while to rue and look for an excuse reflects weak personality.

— Anil Sinha

Tolerance Should Really Be Only A Temporary Attitude... It Must Lead To Recognition.

— Pacifiersucker

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

— Martin Landau

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

— Robert Pattinson