Character Quotes · Page 57

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and…

— Gucci Mane

It was always about the story rather than the character.

— Jean Dujardin

My character in 'Fanaah' has a cool and crazy look at the same time. I'm very particular about my accessories and clothes…

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what…

— Linda Conrad

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be.…

— Kyra Sedgwick

I'm difficult to cast. In comedy, if there's a female character, usually written by a bloke, she's either the ditsy good-looking one,…

— Daisy May Cooper

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,…

— Saul Bellow

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't…

— Tullian Tchividjian

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

— Ben Mendelsohn

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite…

— John Stuart Mill

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we…

— Anonymous

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the…

— Horace

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in…

— Greg Bryk

Emotional healing is almost always a process. It takes time. There is a very important reason for this. Our heavenly Father is…

— Floyd McClung

“Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

— Margaret Deland

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.

— Max Anders

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

“traditions that made an ideology out of the concept of Oneness created a morality that denigrated or made unreal the individual self…

— Anonymous

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a…

— Rene Auberjonois

The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy…

— Pete Docter

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character…

— Ron Clements

I know there are a lot of people who like to get very involved in their characters, but I, personally, find it…

— Henry Cavill

We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there…

— Gordon B. Hinckley