I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities…

— Gail Honeyman

I always like a character who makes me laugh.

— Rachael Stirling

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

— Kate Winslet

When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do…

— David Hudgins

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

— Emily Deschanel

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if…

— Anonymous

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with…

— Harry S. Truman

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

— Semir Zeki

Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty!

— Aaron Chan

I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,…

— Freddie Stroma

If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And…

— Warwick Davis

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

— Maya Angelou

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in…

— Annie Potts