Character Quotes · Page 103

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar!…

— Audrey Tautou

There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.

— David Warner

'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of…

— Lindsay Mendez

God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always…

— L. Tom Perry

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the…

— Lizzy Caplan

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to…

— Jonathan Lethem

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

— Confucius

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me…

— Ayn Rand

The requirement for military force is clear when looking at the first of the nine points agreed in Vienna, which states that…

— Crispin Blunt

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

— Justine Bateman

I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun…

— Rob McElhenney

The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there…

— Joaquin Phoenix

The biggest misconception is that I only write about shitty people. Or that I'm trying to be shocking. I just think people…

— Leslye Headland

My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the…

— Noam Chomsky

Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting.…

— Julie Benz

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

— Tyler Posey

The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable…

— George Gilder

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

— Robbie Amell

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

— C. S. Lewis

It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on…

— Larry Burkett

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

— Josh Hutcherson

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because…

— Janusz Kaminski

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds…

— Elizabeth Carter

“Aristotle also observed that every virtue seems to be bang in the middle of two vices. It occupies what he termed ‘the…

— The School of Life

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them…

— Stephen H. Segal

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

— Alexander Pope

I don't really want to make casual games or games with no sort of story backbone or character backbone.

— Cory Barlog

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

— Joseph Butler

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character…

— Shirley MacLaine

There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To admit mistake is courage and virtue of strong character, while to rue and look for an excuse reflects weak personality.

— Anil Sinha

“Where is the absolution of religion now? Morality is not negotiable, Hensley. Unleashing a war machine in order to end a war?…

— Hazel Woods

Being me is funny. I've made this weird character, and I think it's really funny.

— Miley Cyrus

I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea…

— Kate Bush

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind…

— Noelle Stevenson

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Very rarely does a character or role become larger than the actor.

— Arshad Warsi

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

— Magha