Character Quotes · Page 344

When you see me play Jack, I want you to believe that that's a gay character.

— Sean Hayes

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

— Lord Chesterfield

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

— Matthew Fox

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character.…

— William Fichtner

“What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You don't have to be an All-American. You just have to have character and courage, and I take that message very seriously.

— Rudy Ruettiger

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

— Christine Caine

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the…

— Brian Helgeland

“In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they…

— Roumen Bezergianov

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me…

— Ron Eldard

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the…

— Vin Diesel

You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory.…

— Jeff Bridges

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and…

— Annette Bening

I think that every character, no matter how different they may be perceived, they all have their beautiful moments. All humans do.…

— Takashi Miike

Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of…

— Owen Feltham

What excited me about Ring Of Honor, again, was that promotion is based, for the most part, on in-ring action. And I…

— Marty Scurll

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually…

— George Lucas

“...a friend of mankind with shaky moral foundation is a cannibal of mankind, to say nothing of his vainglory; insult the vainglory…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,…

— Criss Jami

I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the…

— Angelina Jolie

And then while she's lip-syncing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," to this little head next to her, the head eats the…

— Brian Henson

In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're…

— Ishmael Reed

Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop…

— Edward J. Flanagan

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

— Aristotle

I feel Hansa is an evergreen character which has been a sheer pleasure to perform.

— Supriya Pathak

Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.

— Scott Bakula

“Anyone who thinks about it can see that for human beings the teaching and following of morality is something necessary.”

— Philippa Foot

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

— Wendy Kaminer

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

— Hale Appleman

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

— Idris Elba

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an…

— Eric Maisel

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

— John Stuart Mill

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

— Jordan Dane

“do: PERIODICALLY INSPECT YOURSELF FOR CHARACTER ARMOR: PREJUDICES, RIGID THINKING, AUTOMATIC JUDGMENTS, DIFFICULTY LISTENING.”

— Anonymous

“A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.”

— Wayde Goodall

Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything

— Walt Whitman

A man of character and emotional depth is a man who knows who he is and likes himself.

— Senoraroy