Character Quotes · Page 446

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

— Kevin Bacon

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

— Tim Burton

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

— Lord Acton

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own.

— Anonymous

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

— Selma Blair

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

— Greg Bryk

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

— Stephanie Leonidas

Life penalizes those who fall victim to the debilitating effects human weakness, such as a negative character, ignorance, laziness, excesses and vices.

— Anonymous

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this…

— Dougray Scott

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“Sentensi ni mkusanyiko wa maneno unaoanza na herufi kubwa na kuisha na alama ya kushangaa, kuuliza, au nukta. Sentensi bora ni fupi,…

— Enock Maregesi

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique…

— Criss Jami

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of…

— Pope Agapetus I

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he…

— Stephen Vizinczey

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going…

— Charlie Munger

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves.…

— Anonymous

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least…

— Virginia Woolf

“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then…

— Salman Rushdie

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like…

— Jean Paul

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those…

— Marina Warner

I actually read 'The Last Jedi' before 'The Force Awakens' came out. It totally helped me, though! The idea of this franchise…

— Kelly Marie Tran

Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be…

— Marc Andreessen

There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly…

— Paul David Tripp

When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular 'Celtic Warrior' character.

— Sheamus

I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.

— Michael Connelly

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

— Wilkie Collins

I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.

— Genesis Rodriguez

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

— Martin Luther

I would rather be known in life as a honest sinner than as a lying hypocrite.

— Anonymous

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”

— Glenn Beck

I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.

— Matt Servitto

I am always excited when the script or the character has something different to offer.

— Riya Sen

I try and balance positive and negative character traits given to me.

— Rao Ramesh

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

— Malcolm Gets

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

— Ben Askren

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

— Robert Redford

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

— Shweta Tripathi