Character Quotes · Page 321

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.

— Akira Toriyama

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

— Jill Scott

“Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.”

— Daniel Habil

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

— Emma Donoghue

You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.

— Michael Ealy

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

— Rachael Stirling

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

— Nic Pizzolatto

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of…

— Charles Murray

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.…

— Laozi

Where much is given, much is required. Our Heavenly Father asks His daughters to walk in virtue, to live in righteousness so…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and…

— Henry Czerny

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm playing my first urban character in 'Thirudan Police.' It's an important film because I'll be breaking the stereotype that I'm only…

— Aishwarya Rajesh

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have…

— Jean Fritz

It would be really cool to have some more roles where it doesn't matter how a character looks. You get a script,…

— Danielle Macdonald

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees…

— Hilary Mantel

“The quality of any action of body, speech, and mind is primarily determined by the motivation. Thus any action done with positive…

— Dalai Lama XIV

I was shooting on The Mindy Project while I was editing Alex of Venice, which was the stupidest thing I could've done.…

— Chris Messina

When I leave the theater I can always hear people talking about the character, and everyone always says, "You know, I know…

— Gretchen Mol

I remember when I was writing 'The Tin Drum,' I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and…

— Gunter Grass

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

— Scott Snyder

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

— Forest Whitaker

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

— Anonymous

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

— Christina Ricci

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

— Shaun Evans

“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.”

— Victor Bello Accioly

As an actress, we are supposed to morph into another character and that's the fun.

— Pooja Batra

I don't believe in making two songs similar. Every composition must have its own unique character.

— Ilaiyaraaja

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

— George Edward Moore

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

— Michael Emerson

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

— George Bernard Shaw

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue.

— Michelle Fairley

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

— Shinichi Suzuki

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

— Rena Sofer

Classic author moment, "Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?

— Gail Carriger