Character Quotes · Page 361

A man with a lot of knowledge and no character is a dangerous man.

— Anonymous

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

— Michael Shurtleff

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

— Tony Kushner

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

— Wallace Stegner

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm obsessed with modes, and making sure you're seeing the character in different modes.

— Jamie Demetriou

There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school…

— Robert Sheehan

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks…

— Joseph Nye

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by…

— Rachel Kushner

A well-written character is one where you don't know in which direction it's going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.

— Rasika Dugal

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he…

— Kurt Vonnegut

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson.…

— George Madison Adams

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages.…

— Samuel Smiles

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You…

— Sasha Roiz

The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick…

— Samuel Johnson

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying…

— Steve Carell

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything…

— Sergey Nechayev

I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core…

— Hilarie Burton

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it…

— Daniel Craig

The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.…

— Noam Chomsky

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when…

— Lauren Groff

I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my…

— CM Punk

“All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.”

— Keiichi Sigsawa

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and…

— Jason Bateman

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm an actor so I approached my debut with as much honesty and integrity towards the character that I was given to…

— Vishal Jethwa

A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

— Herbert Spencer

For me, as an actor, the challenge is mostly before the film starts when you have to get into the psychology of…

— Barun Sobti

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

— Hiro Murai

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

— Wentworth Miller

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

— Dwight L. Moody

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their…

— Jefferson Davis

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person…

— Mike Krzyzewski

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

— Evan Peters

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.

— Zoe Saldana