Character Quotes · Page 402

I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with.

— Eric McCormack

“Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness,”

— Ben Carson

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

— Kathryn Lasky

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make…

— Nancy Kress

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

— Thomas a Kempis

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

“Throughout the history of mankind, the virtues embraced by humanity have remained true, unwavering, and consistent.”

— Susan C. Young

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims. By-rN

— Ezra Miller

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is…

— Frank Grillo

When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on…

— Katherine Moennig

I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities…

— Alexandra Daddario

A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets…

— Booboo Stewart

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,…

— Anthony Burgess

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every…

— Donald J. Robertson

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals…

— Benjamin Rush

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more…

— Joe Abercrombie

I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are…

— Judy Greer

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life…

— Elizabeth Mitchell

“...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by…

— Socrates

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions…

— Andrew Jackson

I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one -…

— Michael Douglas

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

— Catherine O'Hara

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

— Theodore Parker

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.

— Dick Schaap

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

— Hal Hartley

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

— Al Gore

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.

— Ben Jonson

Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

— Orrin Woodward

“Remember that your reputation is made by others, but your character is made by you!”

— Napoleon Hill (Author

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

— Alfred Molina

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

— Yvonne Strahovski

As an actor you have to have the room to play and find the character.

— Simone Missick

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

— Joseph Joubert

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

— John Lasseter