Character Quotes · Page 1,219

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

— Tobias Segal

I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it,…

— Andrea Navedo

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

— Michael McKean

[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the…

— Vincent de Paul

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing…

— Trevor Moore

There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other…

— Ted Dekker

“Let us return to Benjamin Rush, who foresaw the revolutionary implications of Benjamin [Lay]'s philosophy. Writing after the abolitionist movement had burst…

— The Fearless Benjamin Lay Marcus Rediker

If you can relate to what the character's going through, the story can be as ridiculous as possible, and people will relate…

— Drew Goddard

“In the life of the individual man, virtue is the sole good; such things as health, happiness, possessions, are of no account.…

— Anonymous

There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I…

— Charlaine Harris

We are who we are because of three things, the choices we make, the habits we keep and the disciplines we have.

— Ricardo Housham

Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and…

— John C. Reilly

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in…

— Pat Barker

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

— James A. Garfield

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters.

— Chad Lindberg

“Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance…

— Aristotle

I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments.

— Lucas Hedges

“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

— Horace Mann

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

— Napoleon Hill

From the initial design stages of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice,' we had the idea of the player being able to move dynamically…

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters,…

— Tom Perrotta

I do think a lot of depictions of PTSD, sometimes in a movie, it feels like the scene where the character knows…

— Fred Hechinger

Galentine's Day is the day before Valentine's Day. People sometimes think, 'Oh, it's a replacement for Valentine's Day.' But it's not. You…

— Kayleen Schaefer