Character Quotes · Page 351

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who…

— Nat Wolff

“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to…

— C.S. Lewis

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

— Lambert of Maastricht

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

— Alexa Vega

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets…

— Richard Dormer

The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a…

— James Watkins

I think that Dean Ambrose is driven to create a first-time-ever, unique character that other people in the future can be compared…

— Paul Heyman

I enjoy Modern Family very much. Good TV program. I don't know why. I just find that so many of the jokes…

— Doug Benson

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have…

— Aubrey Plaza

Most comic book creators consider about making characters that people recognize and that can carry across many books. Something that becomes a…

— Sean Michael Wilson

I've always loved stories involving small groups of people going up against overwhelming odds, and 'The Raid' leaves the audience totally in…

— Gareth Evans

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the…

— Christian Camargo

With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and…

— Tom Cruise

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a…

— Haley Joel Osment

I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything…

— John Francis Daley

What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I…

— Barry Humphries

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“[G]enerosity... is the mistress and queen that gives lustre to every virtue, as it is not hard to prove. Where could one…

— Chrétien de Troyes

A pretty face attracts the eye. But a good character catches the heart. Don't be busy fixing your face, be busy fixing…

— Anonymous

There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to…

— Keanu Reeves

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

— George Eliot

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

— Tom Clancy

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

— Tacitus

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

— Anonymous

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

— Radha Mitchell

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

— Bill Pullman

A person's bad attitude towards you is not a reflection of your character but a reflection of theirs.

— Rashida Rowe

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

— Jeanne Moreau

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

— William Shakespeare

“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

— Noel Gallagher

“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.”

— Sunday Adelaja