Character Quotes · Page 329

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

— Ron Perlman

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.

— W. Earl Brown

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

— Jeff Van Gundy

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

— Emilie de Ravin

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

— Aristotle

“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.”

— Matthew Henry

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

— Carl von Clausewitz

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

— Jose Saramago

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to…

— Jose Carreras

“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the…

— David Brooks

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the…

— Albert Camus

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character…

— Ravi Babu

Sure, there are moments that you can escape, and you can sit back and just enjoy it, but one of the most…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and…

— Prunella Scales

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow…

— Samuel Butler

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and…

— Miguel Syjuco

I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your…

— Georgia May Jagger

“People who looked after animals were by and large kind people; they simply practised kindness, unlike those who made much of it.…

— Alexander McCall Smith

There was a point in the latter 1990s at which, suddenly, every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay…

— Lionel Shriver

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward…

— Donald Miller

Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.…

— Rose McIver

I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and…

— Alfred Rosenberg

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a…

— Ben Stiller

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

— Derek Jeter

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to…

— Charlize Theron

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

— Morgan Brittany

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

— Franz Grillparzer

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

— Anonymous

I don't think a character that you played for even eight years ever leaves you.

— Candace Cameron Bure

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

— John Adams

“WHO WHAT WHERE WHY WHEN Personality redefines character through phases of wisdom at different ages”

— Kamil Ali

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

— Leo Burnett

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

— Ida Tarbell

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

— Bill Hybels

In 'The Humans,' there's a gay character, and the fact that she's gay is probably the least interesting thing about her.

— Joe Mantello

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

— Howard Barker

I tend to use a lot of movement in both camera and characters, and I also tend to give characters a lot…

— Kari Skogland