Character Quotes · Page 396

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

— Rio Ferdinand

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

— Pia Zadora

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

— Shawnee Smith

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

— William Shakespeare

“I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.”

— Maralee McKee

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

— Dave Rowntree

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

“Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a…

— Pope Francis

I just feel like I'm a part of a really cool group of ladies, really good actresses. And each of them kind…

— Erica Durance

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being…

— Edward James Olmos

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

— Anton Yelchin

In 'Talvar', my character loses his daughter and it was quite an intense role. I had to concentrate and I would request…

— Neeraj Kabi

If we can develop the character and work with God, then let him develop the character of Christ in us, we're going…

— Gary Chapman

It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually…

— Olivia Wilde

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the…

— Tamannaah

“This observation, then, holds universally: But still one may be at some loss to account for it. It is not sufficient to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,…

— Patricia Highsmith

The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary…

— John Stuart Mill

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably…

— Tom Wicker

“Look beyond the talker, and uncover the stalker. If the mind is darkened with character disEASE, the behavior will symptomatically follow...those whose…

— Tracey Bond

My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally,…

— Mike Mignola

“Yet, on one point after another, what Jesus is urging on us are behaviors more commonly associated with women then with men:…

— Robert S. McElvaine

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

— Bill Skarsgard

A story isn't interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.

— Alexis Bledel

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special…

— Tillie Olsen

“The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.”

— Ann Whitman

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

— William Hazlitt

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

— John Wimber

“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”

— John Geddes

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

— Sidney Mohede

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

— Winston Churchill

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

— Ezra Furman

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

— Norm MacDonald

I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life.

— Nikitin Dheer

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

— Lore Segal

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

— Confucius

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr