Character Quotes · Page 459

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

— Michael Sheen

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

— John Fowles

“Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.”

— Jack B Nicholson

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

— Kate Winslet

It's better if you just base your character exactly how you see it and not base it on anyone else.

— Emily Osment

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

— Emma Kenney

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are…

— Sara Zarr

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think The Ring plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character…

— Martin Henderson

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little…

— Betty White

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good…

— Joseph Addison

The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a…

— Sam Harris

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

One of the ways to find your true CHARACTER is to evaluate how you behave and perform your deeds when you are…

— Ritu

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get…

— Bill Maher

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their…

— Plutarch

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which…

— Kartik Aaryan

One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could…

— Brian Azzarello

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even…

— Patrick Vieira

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a…

— Danielle Dutton

When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project,…

— Asa Butterfield

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain…

— Howard Barker

You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less…

— Ryan Holiday

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

— Imelda Staunton

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

“Surely intelligence wasn't enough; moral clarity was needed as well.”

— Paul Kalanithi

A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of…

— Scott Eastwood

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

— Halle Berry

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every Human Who Expresses An Honest Thought Is A Good Soldier In The Army Of Intellectual Liberty...

— Pacifiersucker

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

— T.I

I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

— Pratik Gandhi

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

— Frank Oz

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

— John K. Fairbank

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

— Anonymous

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

— Regina King

Challenges are what inspire me. I therefore accept whatever comes my way, be it supporting roles or character roles.

— Rajpal Yadav

I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'

— Omari Hardwick

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

— Martin Short