Character Quotes · Page 359

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

— Brad Furman

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

— Robert Kirkman

Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.

— John Rocha

It's really fun to play someone with no filter but who is also really good at what she does.

— Aidy Bryant

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

— Lydia Sigourney

I've been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that's not me it has failed miserably.

— MO

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

— Howard G. Hendricks

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

— Sydney Pollack

I would be on top of the world if 'Remix' comes back. I wasn't playing a central character in it but it…

— Sourabh Raj Jain

We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be…

— George R. R. Martin

I love the phrase, 'Somebody's going to have a good day today, so it might as well be me.' I feel like…

— Josh Peck

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to…

— Kyra Sedgwick

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun…

— Sadie Frost

“They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived…

— Steven Erikson

That was an amazing time period [ CBGB filming] to transport to during filming - the clothes, the music, the lifestyle -…

— Ashley Greene

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Humanity will... be confronted with dangers of unprecedented character unless, in due time, measures can be taken to forestall a disastrous competition…

— Niels Bohr

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not…

— David Quammen

Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues,…

— Alexander Pope

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or…

— David Boreanaz

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because…

— Molly Antopol

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But…

— Phillips Brooks

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

— Sudha Murty

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

— Amanda Hearst

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

— Maxwell Caulfield

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'

— Tony Goldwyn

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

— Tracy Pollan

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

— Thomas Carlyle

“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.”

— Mel Starr

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

— Baron de Montesquieu

It's really exciting to get to be the main character of something.

— Noah Schnapp

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

— Samuel Johnson

I get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it…

— Gail Simone

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

— Tacitus

Your character may be judged by how much and how well you talk if you dont talk about yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai