Character Quotes · Page 312

Playing a Black trans character on a TV show is a story that needs to be told.

— Brian Michael Smith

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

— Irwin Shaw

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

— Missy Peregrym

I come from a background in TV, where there's a real commitment to character.

— Cord Jefferson

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long…

— Jane Campion

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

— Zig Ziglar

“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline…

— Mia Wasikowska

Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which…

— James Leonard Gordon

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

— David Hume

I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the…

— Sanaa Lathan

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character…

— John Milton

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable…

— Jane Clayson Johnson

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me…

— Eva Green

As actors, for the most part, there's that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get…

— Rick Hoffman

People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But…

— Ken Follett

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions…

— David Hume

With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's…

— Michael Eklund

“Robert Jackall’s book [ Moral Mazes ] impressed on me that corporate dress serves a far more important function than mere body…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The reigning belief today is that closeness between persons is a moral good. The reigning aspiration today is to develop individual personality…

— Richard Sennett

I think you do have to attend to the sort of core values of film, which is that the audience wants to…

— Hutch Parker

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals…

— Boris Pasternak

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

— Michael Josephson

“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.”

— Socrates

“True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.”

— Abigail Landsbrook

“To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.”

— Lee Ellis

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

— Drew Scott

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

— Nick Offerman

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

— Mark Williams

“THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE...”

— VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA

You show your character through the good times and the bad times and for me it's just about being professional.

— Jared Dudley

“A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's”

— Jean Paul Richter

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

— Elizabeth Moon

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

— Audrey Tautou