Character Quotes · Page 313

It is easier to change rivers and mountains than human character.

— Vikrant Parsai

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

— Elizabeth Montagu

This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

— Paul Raci

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

— River Phoenix

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

— Jefferson Mays

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

— Dave East

When I look back at old footage of me back in the early '90s, it almost looks like a cartoon character, or…

— Chesney Hawkes

The character - character - of Mallory on 'Family Ties' was a year younger than me. A fictitious year younger than me.…

— Justine Bateman

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no…

— Ray Nitschke

I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is…

— Luc Ferrari

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write…

— Beth Henley

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find…

— Alexis Denisof

The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters…

— Jaime Murray

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this…

— Patrick Warburton

Your character is the master of your destiny. Your destiny will smile if you are in control of a positive character. Your…

— Anonymous

I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's…

— George R. R. Martin

I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take…

— Doug Jones

We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that…

— David Richo

I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access…

— Cara Buono

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if…

— Ira Sachs

I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott] Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him,…

— Matt Bomer

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs. Self-respect is something…

— Joan Didion

“Non-violent resistance to evil is a quintessential element of the character of a real human being. If someone does wrong to me,…

— Abhijit Naskar

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

— John Wooden

I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

— Barry Sloane

My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.

— Hansika Motwani

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

— Andrea Barber

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

— Tim Daly

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

— Harland Williams

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

— Reggie Miller

“Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.”

— Fennel Hudson

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

— Shigesato Itoi

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

— Arthur Herzog

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

— Garrett Hardin

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius