Character Quotes · Page 376

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

— Zac Efron

It's not who we are that defines us, it's what we do to others that defines our personality, our image, our soul.

— Anonymous

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Some people may fool you for the moment, but be patient and see what happens. A person true colors will always show…

— Anonymous

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

— Julian Barnes

Starting over isn't easy, but the character it builds, helps build you.

— Anonymous

I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending…

— Stephen Graham Jones

It's weird because I've grown up a lot after filming the first 'Hunger Games' movie. Growing up with a character is really…

— Willow Shields

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask…

— Rene Auberjonois

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They…

— Viggo Mortensen

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they…

— James Madison

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,…

— William Hazlitt

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would…

— Eddie Marsan

I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a…

— Kevin Morby

“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there…

— Thomas Hardy

“As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that…

— John Rawls

I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of…

— Joseph Beuys

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and…

— Charles M. Schulz

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a…

— Peter Ackroyd

You're trying to play someone [Edward Cullen] who's seen by a lot of people as being this perfect thing, but what is…

— Robert Pattinson

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.

— Michael Josephson

Persons of character have courage and conviction to withstand challenges of life.

— Anil Sinha

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

— Sean Harris

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

“I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”

— Nita Prose

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

— Liza Campbell

My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

— Lin Yutang

“There is no effort in collecting judgements. Being wise with them requires an act of true character”

— Joel Kirkpatrick

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

— Aaron Eckhart

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

— George Packer