Character Quotes · Page 380

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

— Jeanette Winterson

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the…

— Christina Ricci

“Religion and morality do not go hand in hand. In fact, they are at the opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum.”

— Al Stefanelli

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

— Sam Harris

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

— Matthew Fox

I don't really want to make casual games or games with no sort of story backbone or character backbone.

— Cory Barlog

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying…

— Carl Sandburg

De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single…

— Patty Jenkins

The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the…

— John Lasseter

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of…

— Lisa Gardner

My name is an acronym for EA - EA All Day. It's a persona that I developed over the years in sports…

— Enzo Amore

“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like…

— Omar El Akkad

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a…

— Kevin Bacon

The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on…

— David Brock

The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really…

— Eric Kripke

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated…

— Walter Jon Williams

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull…

— George Bernard Shaw

The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the…

— Adam Driver

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their…

— Plutarch

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which…

— Kartik Aaryan

“A character without motivation is an automaton. They’re just going through the motions.”

— Nathan Bransford

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

— Thomas Jefferson

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

— Marion LeRoy Burton

“Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.”

— Spider Robinson

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

— Timothy Olyphant

“Leaders build bridges; and seek common grounds to unite. Pygmies build walls; and invent excuses to divide.”

— Mamur Mustapha

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

— Colm Meaney

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

— Jena Malone

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

— Charlie Brooker

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

— George Bernard Shaw

“I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.”

— Robert Deniro

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

— Jane Seymour

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing…

— Marc E. Platt

“One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.”

— Allan Lokos

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

— Francis Bacon