Character Quotes · Page 461

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

— Riz Ahmed

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

— Phyllis Bottome

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

— Jacki Weaver

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

— Clint Eastwood

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

— Dennis Prager

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

— Bill Courtney

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

— Katee Sackhoff

“Good character is all about improving your personal moral values to advance to a more desirable state.”

— Joan Jessalyn Cox

I hated how Sam Rothstein got manipulated by Sharon Stone's character in 'Casino.' I mean, I just hate how he gets manipulated;…

— Mekhi Phifer

You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Sam Seaborn is the best character that's ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it's a timeless show [The West…

— Rob Lowe

Catman - what I really like about him is he's a really grounded character in terms of - he's an excellent tracker.…

— Gail Simone

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully.…

— Donnie Yen

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That…

— Norman Mailer

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't…

— Maika Monroe

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are…

— Christopher Reeve

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much…

— Diane Kruger

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a…

— Elmore Leonard

“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Some people are like gravity; they draw you into a room with a hop in your step and a smile on your…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.…

— Nathan Englander

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national…

— William Shatner

The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality.…

— Melissa Gira Grant

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

“Corruption is not a moral problem, it is a distribution system and a way of amassing power.”

— Lisa Margonelli

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

— Robert Bolt

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

— John Milton

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

“Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.”

— John Keats

It isn't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

— William Sidney Porter

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

— Apolo Ohno

“Is it objectively wrong to torture innocent babies, just for fun? Is morality relative?”

— Vincent Bozzino

I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.

— Lisa Wilson

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

— Nicole Holofcener

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.

— Dennis Haysbert

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

— Raheel Farooq