Character Quotes · Page 277

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

— Danny Pudi

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

— Jeffrey Wright

More than anything, I wanted the role of Kitty Russell, even though some people couldn't see me as that character.

— Amanda Blake

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

— Kevin Spacey

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

— Rachel Carson

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

— Ray Romano

Adversity can do nothing but sculpt the character of the subjected.

— Charlie Butcher

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are times,I'm like a ghost.Every time my existence were lost.Sometimes I can't barely hold the pain it caused.Most of the time,…

— Lo

“Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and…

— Charles Fillmore

The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're…

— Stan Lee

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent…

— Anne Lamott

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have…

— Chip Kidd

With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone…

— Aaron Ruell

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social… The Communists have not…

— Karl Marx

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985…

— Manmohan Singh

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is…

— Alphonsus Rodriguez

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long…

— Liberty Ross

time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined…

— Janet Frame

Just the fact that there's motion and sound, took me a long time on Walking Dead to get used to the fact…

— Chris Black

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

— Billy Sunday

I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to.

— Gina Haspel

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

— Priyanka Chopra

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

— Cassidy Freeman

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

— S.C. Stephens

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

— Howard Cosell

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

— Ang Lee

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

— Zebulon Pike

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

— John Stuart Mill

Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

— Jim Starlin

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of…

— John Lydon

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

— Michael Connelly

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

— Henry Miller

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

— Peter Orner