Character Quotes · Page 412

You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself once...

— Pooja

“To bad guys arent like Mr. Potato head where you can pick and chose which parts you want.”

— Susane Colasanti

In real life, I'm a large character, and I need the space and platform to be large.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

“No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.”

— Abhijit Naskar

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a…

— Billy Crudup

Pay attention to the way your boyfriend treats others, because one day he will treat you that way as well.

— Anonymous

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

— Nadine Gordimer

From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

— Randy Savage

One of the things that upset me a lot, and I'm pretty open about it is people that challenge my character or…

— P.K. Subban

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego…

— Maxine Peake

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man…

— Bayard Rustin

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking…

— Oscar Wilde

Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do…

— Manny Pacquiao

For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the…

— Antonin Scalia

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when…

— Ray Winstone

“Oh, there are plenty of people," the Duc used to observe, "who never misbehave save when passion spurs them to ill; later,…

— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like…

— Greg Mottola

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.…

— Charlie Munger

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is…

— Stevie Smith

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I would love to do things that teach me new skills. Like, I don't know how to ride a horse. And not…

— Asia Kate Dillon

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are…

— Larenz Tate

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

— Vitor Belfort

“You can easily judge the character of a person by how he treats those who can do nothing for him”

— Anonymous

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

— David McCullough

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

— Cate Blanchett

Muhammad Ali was such an original - his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.

— Jon Jones

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

— Carey Mulligan

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

— Romola Garai

Molly Ringwald's characters always had a complex personal life, and I appreciated that.

— Marielle Heller

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.”

— Marisa de los Santos

I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.

— Joe Morton

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

— Rebel Wilson

Holiness is not a series of do’s and don’ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of…

— Jerry Bridges

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

— Aaron Stanford

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

— John de Lancie