Character Quotes · Page 403

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

— Julie Andrews

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

— Evangeline Lilly

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

— David Sedaris

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a…

— Clint Eastwood

When a character of a person changes check the kind of friend he keep

— Chukwubuikem

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I work from my heart. When I look at the script, I need to feel myself in the character.

— Diljit Dosanjh

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room…

— Anne Enright

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Working on location is ideal because you enter the character and the story. Shooting at a studio near home, there's a certain…

— Sondra Locke

It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on…

— Donald E. Westlake

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then…

— Sidney Sheldon

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear…

— Dorothea Dix

The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly…

— Mary Doria Russell

...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no…

— Bertrand Russell

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human…

— Milan Kundera

It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever…

— Brittany Murphy

My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also…

— Lupe Fiasco

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps…

— J. D. Vance

When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so…

— Felicity Jones

I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems…

— Richard K. Morgan

Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the…

— Aristotle

That's why people, not that I think this is like always a necessary process, but people who are method actors, there's a…

— Monica Barbaro

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character…

— Pankaj Tripathi

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

— Sergio Leone

Look, I don't think villains are interesting when you can't tell where they're coming from.

— Leigh Bardugo

I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of…

— David Linley

“The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.”

— Wendell Berry

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

— Jose Iturbi

I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.

— Jim Nantz

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

— Sara Zarr

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe…

— Johnny Depp

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

— Joe Madureira

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

— Christopher Golden

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

— Phyllida Lloyd