Character Quotes · Page 175

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

— Tom Rickman

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

— Keri Russell

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice”

— Gena Showalter

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

— Max Cannon

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

— Devin Kelley

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

— Walton Goggins

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want…

— Martin Luther

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you…

— Joshua Jackson

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to…

— Rachel Weisz

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood…

— Scarlett Thomas

“Service is an expression of inner growth and development, It is the muscle-building of virtues. It is the barometer of inner development…

— Master Del Pe

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and…

— Greta Gerwig

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right…

— Bertrand Russell

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered…

— Channing Tatum

It's so easy to confirm what you believe about somebody by the numbers how fast they are, how tall they are, how…

— Cris Collinsworth

There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and…

— Albert Einstein

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I'm always looking for what's something that Bradley Whitford's character can say that is completely outrageous and completely wrong, but in a…

— Matt Nix

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,…

— Ariel Durant

A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it…

— Charles Spurgeon

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

— Franz Grillparzer

In the film 'Paisa' my character can't be called glamorous. It's more performance oriented.

— Catherine Tresa

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

— Evan Rachel Wood

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

I have played bad-guy roles, but they were significant to the story.

— Lyriq Bent

I'm not bankrupt of fun, life, my dignity, my character, my essence.

— Chris Eubank Sr

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

— George McGovern

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

— Tara Strong

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

— Jeremy Renner

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

— April Parker Jones

Whether it's angst or jealousy, catfights always have to come from the wellspring of the emotion of the character.

— Sallie Patrick

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella,

— Ai Weiwei

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

— Cassandra Clare

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

— Sara Zarr

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

— Bono