Character Quotes · Page 295

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

— Carol Kane

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

— Roop Durgapal

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

— Jonathan Kellerman

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

— Romain Duris

“I haven't tried to conceal my character," ..."so what you knoe of me must be in line with my true nature.”

— Jennifer K. Clark and Stephonie K. Williams

I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get…

— Jay Ellis

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

— Mohanlal

“this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining…

— Plato

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I suppose the biggest strain was that Hoodwink is a high-octane character and he's up there like all the time. Once he's…

— Andy Serkis

Every character for me is the same. I give equal importance to every character I do, that's what's more important, whether this…

— Mallika Sherawat

Don't overact. No one can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. Just be who you are. This is the…

— Anonymous

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people…

— Tabu

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often…

— Katy Jurado

“There is nothing more glorious—nothing that does more honour to true virtue, than the confidence with which one approaches a friend of…

— Antoine François Prévost

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug…

— Beryl Markham

Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history…

— Karin Lowachee

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the…

— Annie Besant

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open…

— Johnny Depp

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped…

— Benjamin Franklin

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters…

— Jamie Dornan

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and…

— Hermann Hesse

“Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality…

— Kakuzo Okakura

I like living with a character for a really long time and what can open up with that.

— Paula Malcomson

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

— Radhika Pandit

You get more time to see the growth of a character in a series, there's no scope for that in films.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's…

— Frank Deford

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

— Steve Buscemi

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

— J. C. Watts

After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.

— Madeline Brewer

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

— Mitt Romney

“I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.”

— Lisa Kleypas

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

— John Webster

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“Show me a man without vice and I'll show you one without virtue!”

— Pittacus Lore

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

— Cullen Murphy