Character Quotes · Page 269

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

— Diana Rigg

The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor's dream.

— Ashley Bell

All my characters are different from one another, and it's like I am living so many different lives simultaneously.

— Mrunal Thakur

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

— Martial

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

— Voltaire

I personally don't like family dramas, but don't mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity.

— Richa Pallod

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

— Lucille Kallen

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

— George Bernard Shaw

I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody…

— Pierce Brosnan

“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by…

— Mark R. Levin

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be…

— Horacio Quiroga

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective…

— Katee Sackhoff

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

— John C. Maxwell

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel,…

— Nicole Beharie

“Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at…

— Damian Lewis

It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will…

— John Wesley Snyder

“Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in…

— John Steinbeck

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the…

— Thomas Paine

A lot of times, in film and TV, they just want you to play yourself. But, when you're someone who's more of…

— Carrie Preston

While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until…

— Moran Atias

People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you…

— Jared Harris

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Her friend who treated her maid badly was not a wicked person. She behaved well towards her family and she had always…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai

— Saif Ali Khan

“... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.”

— Umberto Eco

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

— Dennis Franz

Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.

— Maxine Peake

I would be glad to share the screen with anyone as long as I love my character and the story.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

— Owen Feltham

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

— Ralph W Sockman

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

— Clark Gregg

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

— John Cazale

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

— Horace Bushnell

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

— Katherine Langford

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall…

— Anne Lamott

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

— Bertrand Russell

Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.

— Mary Wiseman

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my…

— Kartik Aaryan