Character Quotes · Page 382

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.

— Michael Marisi Ornstein

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

— Chris Farley

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

— Stanley Schmidt

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

— Nicole Kidman

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— Don DeLillo

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.

— Jack Handey

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a…

— Jessie Mueller

'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which…

— Ashwin Sanghi

If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of…

— John F. Kerry

I'm a big fan of character actors like Johnny Depp and Gary Oldman. My goal is to continue playing character roles in…

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and…

— Alex Kingston

I am not a trained actor, and for me, getting under the skin of a character, living their lives, is important, or…

— Deepti Naval

'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another…

— Alice Ripley

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of…

— Herbert Hoover

“Hitherto, Aubrey had had no opportunity of studying Lord Ruthven’s character, and now he found, that, though many more of his actions…

— John William Polidori

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a…

— Danielle Dutton

When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project,…

— Asa Butterfield

We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of…

— Nina Jacobson

“Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend…

— Daniel Friedmann

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you…

— Carl Sagan

The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk…

— Rudolf Bultmann

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less…

— Ryan Holiday

I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

— Donald Sinden

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

— Anonymous

It's cool to show different sides of myself and my character. I feel like not that many people get to do that.

— Carmella

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

— Berthold Auerbach

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

— Joseph Addison

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

— Kevin Spacey

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

— Winston Churchill

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

— Paulo Coelho

I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213

— Sylvia Day

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

— Annie Besant

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet…

— David E. Kelley

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the…

— Anonymous

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.”

— Stephan Pastis

Nothing can be better than playing a Maharashtrian character in a Rohit Shetty film.

— Sonu Sood

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain