Character Quotes · Page 424

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him.

— Quentin Tarantino

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about…

— Flannery O'Connor

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

— Lusia Strus

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from…

— William Dobell

Some people will never change, and you just have to accept that.

— Anonymous

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

— Paul Dano

You cannot have the career I'm having, staying at Real Madrid for seven years, without character.

— Raphael Varane

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

— Dan Scanlon

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my…

— Francesca Annis

You know what? I wanna play something that is really... it changes the game. I don't wanna be the same story where…

— Terry Crews

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues…

— Alexander Pope

No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our…

— John Cassian

Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's…

— Anjelah Johnson

Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I realize everybody wants what they can't have but in the end of the day what you have inside is much more…

— Selena Gomez

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a…

— Eddie Marsan

All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever…

— Will Arnett

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient…

— Ambrose Bierce

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward…

— Jim Shepard

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?…

— Martin McDonagh

There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is…

— Aristotle

I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both…

— Fredrik Bond

“For humans, tools point to the necessity of moral inquiry. Because nature makes only ambiguous prescriptions for us, we are compelled to…

— Matthew B. Crawford

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

— Sigourney Weaver

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

— Emily Giffin

I do not want to work to stay busy. I want to feel excited and challenged with each character that I portray…

— Kirti Kulhari

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

— Jose Marti

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

— Rita Moreno

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

— Jeffrey Tambor

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Persistence is the virtue by which all other virtues bear fruit.”

— Arturo Graf

You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast…

— Colin Morgan

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

— Masha Gessen

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

— Henry David Thoreau

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

— Isaac Barrow

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

— Anonymous

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

— Confucius