Character Quotes · Page 422

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

— Alison Bechdel

“there are serious environmental and ethical problems with the industrial food system.”

— John Durant

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

— James A. Michener

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

— Baltasar Gracian

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

— Alexis Bledel

I may have played romantic roles, but each character has been different, with his own personality.

— Fawad Khan

“We do not believe that any other virtue is more important than bravery”

— Veronica Roth

How a character hides his feelings tells us something about him.

— Martin Landau

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

— Freda Adler

I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Sexa as a character was fun to play. My mother couldn't even recognise me in the get-up of an older guy. In…

— Varun Sharma

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And…

— Emily Watson

Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I…

— Ross Butler

I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for…

— Markus Zusak

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an…

— Joyce Carol Oates

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate…

— Henry Parry Liddon

To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star.…

— Kim Jee-woon

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control…

— John C. Reilly

I’m not perfect. I never identified with the way I look; I was just born this way. I don’t feel rejection if…

— Erin Heatherton

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money,…

— Charles Lamb

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces…

— Queen Latifah

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never…

— Craig Bierko

“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel…

— Abhijit Naskar

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

— Freeman Dyson

“Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's”

— Phoebe Conn

Never compromise your morals for anyone or anything or you'll surely regret it.

— Sonya Parker

The blueprint of your character is your day by day choice, what you choose, what you think and what you do is…

— London Mond

My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

— Meryl Streep

Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

— Josef Pieper

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'

— Chadwick Boseman

“In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.”

— Wilkie Collins

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

— Anna Quindlen

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

— Quentin Tarantino

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

— Andy Daly

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

— Tom Kenny

As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.

— John Bishop

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

— Clive Owen