Character Quotes · Page 364

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

— Miriam Shor

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

— Horace

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

— Alexander Pope

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

— Pearl S. Buck

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

— Frank Bruno

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one…

— Slash

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real…

— Ayn Rand

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side…

— Anna Kendrick

Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express…

— Edward Hirsch

That's what I like particularly about 'Industry,' that Harper, this character, the entire show is not trying to tell anybody anything about…

— Myha'la

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try…

— Ingmar Bergman

There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or…

— John Frederick Boyes

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that…

— Carol Kane

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's…

— Alan Bennett

The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what…

— Joseph Campbell

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense…

— Khaled Hosseini

Between New York and L.A., and all of us who are actors, I feel like we're just one big, cast repertory company,…

— Denis O'Hare

I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which…

— Megan Chance

Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note,…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to…

— Katie Aselton

When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting…

— Shane Douglas

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like…

— Greg Berlanti

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

— Patricia Clarkson

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

— Sydney J. Harris

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Not many know, but the costumes of your character can really help you to get into the skin of the character.

— Amrita Rao

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure.

— David Ambrose

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

— James N. Frey

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the…

— Paul Auster

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

— Russell Hornsby

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

If you end up growing a character too quickly, you don't have anywhere to go after that point.

— Ray Fisher

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

— Christopher Walken