Character Quotes · Page 400

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in…

— Hattie McDaniel

I agree to play a character if I feel that as an audience member, it will entertain me.

— Babu Antony

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

— Scott Speedman

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

— Milla Jovovich

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

— Natalie Grant

Part of what makes my character work is the delivery of the truth behind my comments.

— Kenny Omega

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

— Lucy Alibar

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

— Alain de Botton

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system…

— Chris Zylka

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever…

— Jill Scott

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of…

— Marguerite Moreau

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I can play the character better because of the roundness of my experience - because of the things I've been through. All…

— Charles Bronson

I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of…

— Zach Braff

Do I seem to play characters that in the end don't get the girl? Maybe. But you don't always get the girl…

— Scott Foley

It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a…

— David Kirschner

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a…

— Elmore Leonard

“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Some people are like gravity; they draw you into a room with a hop in your step and a smile on your…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.…

— Nathan Englander

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice…

— Marcus Aurelius

I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national…

— William Shatner

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on…

— Ann Brashares

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

— Richard Marquand

“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

— Sudeep

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

— Dayananda Saraswati

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a…

— Anonymous

When you play an anti-hero, it is a task to make people empathise with your character.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other…

— Parker Posey

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

— Barbara Kingsolver

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

— David O. McKay

Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

— Agnes Strickland

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

— Jay Pharoah

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

— Cameron Monaghan

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

— Laurence Sterne