Character Quotes · Page 385

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely…

— Gemma Ward

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

— John Wooden

“Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.”

— Charles W. Colson

I am always excited when the script or the character has something different to offer.

— Riya Sen

I try and balance positive and negative character traits given to me.

— Rao Ramesh

I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.

— Matt Servitto

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”

— Glenn Beck

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

— Ben Askren

The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel…

— Ilana Glazer

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going…

— Jonathan Levine

“You see, Marcus, some things have value yet have no price, and a wise man learns them and their worth. So do…

— Paul Waters

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most…

— Will Smith

We use music, cinematic storytelling and very stylized backgrounds to create mood and atmosphere as 'Samurai Jack' travels an exotic landscape. The…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Strength of character determines attitude towards endeavour. Strong mindset take every situation in stride & gain courage,courage paves way for confidence &…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of…

— P. G. Wodehouse

If I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in…

— Vin Diesel

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like…

— Jean Paul

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least…

— Virginia Woolf

“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then…

— Salman Rushdie

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those…

— Marina Warner

I actually read 'The Last Jedi' before 'The Force Awakens' came out. It totally helped me, though! The idea of this franchise…

— Kelly Marie Tran

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a…

— Amos Oz

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time,…

— Adam Driver

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters…

— Antoine Fuqua

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

— Robert Redford

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

— Malcolm Gets

I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.

— Alex Sharp

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

— Shweta Tripathi

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

— Laozi

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

— Michael Scott

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

— Kevin Bacon

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz

When the actors look your character, half the problems are solved.

— Priyadarshan

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

— Lord Chesterfield

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

— Roger Penrose

“The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.”

— C.G. Jung

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

— Gerard Way