Character Quotes · Page 429

I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

— James Patterson

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Being just is virtue of humility.It reflects high self esteem, transparency & modesty.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I'm firmly entrenched in the Seth Rollins character. It is so close to who I am as a person, we're almost overtly…

— Seth Rollins

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

— Antoine Rivarol

“Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

— Denise Mina

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you…

— Patricia Clarkson

I've been doing this 17 years but I can tell you I have more websites now than I have ever had devoted…

— Robert Patrick

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring…

— Jerome Flynn

Miranda is extremely tacky. I personally want to edit my videos well, but I have to keep Miranda's character in mind, so…

— Colleen Ballinger

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West,…

— Douglas Malloch

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the…

— Suzy Kassem

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be…

— Zach Woods

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to…

— Andrew Dominik

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify…

— Mitt Romney

The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish…

— V. Raymond Edman

I'm UCB trained - I came up learning about game, which is a really big part of the Upright Citizens Brigade theater.…

— Aubrey Plaza

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you…

— Janet Montgomery

“The character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined. If those accounts be true,…

— Thomas Paine

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the…

— Hugh Grant

“The Cowboy Way Being a Cowboy is doing the right thing; common wisdom born of simple virtues and strong ideals. Above all,…

— Charly Gullett

A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful…

— John F. Kennedy

I like the wild characters. I like the idea of being a character actor without being a character actor.

— Britt Robertson

Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.

— Wally Lamb

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

— Walter Scott

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

— Sarada Devi

I'm grateful that some of my characters have stuck and impacted people to variant degrees.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

A man is defined by his character, not what car he drives or the clothes he wears or the size he is.

— Enhance Dreams

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

— Jim Brown

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

— Quentin Tarantino

“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on…

— Nic Pizzolatto

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

— Maria Sharapova

When you see who I am, you're getting a real character, a real person. R-Truth, that's me.

— R-Truth

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you're playing the same character for a decade it's natural that there are moments when you want to try something new.

— David Schwimmer

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

— Oscar Wilde

I've always been drawn to playing characters that are a completely the opposite of myself.

— Alexandra Breckenridge