Character Quotes · Page 308

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

— Raoul Dufy

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

— Randy Quaid

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

Were all born with the same size soul, everyone is born good. It's choices along the bumpy road of life that changes…

— Anonymous

When something has soul, it doesn't matter that the character is different from you.

— Shira Haas

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

— Charles Frazier

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about…

— Sada Thompson

Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place…

— Ellen G. White

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for…

— Stephen King

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit…

— Anonymous

“Kindness must be the highest virtue--don't let me forget that ever. Were I to strive for one thing only 'twould be to…

— Joan W. Blos

Domino is all about... as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude…

— Rob Liefeld

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try…

— Orlando Bloom

I always tried to play the bad guys as guys who didn't know they were bad guys. There are villains we run…

— Martin Landau

If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as…

— David Hume

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…

— Thomas Paine

It really depends on what the screenplay is asking of you, and what your responsibility is to that character. You have the…

— Johnny Depp

My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day.…

— Alice Eve

Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve…

— Charles Lindbergh

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on…

— Daniel Webster

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

— Virginia Wade

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

— Brendan Fehr

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

— Nick Saban

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

— Robert Cray

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

— David Antin

It's not who we are that defines us, it's what we do to others that defines our personality, our image, our soul.

— Anonymous

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

— Zac Efron

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

Starting over isn't easy, but the character it builds, helps build you.

— Anonymous

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

— Thomas Jefferson