Character Quotes · Page 178

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

— John Dryden

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

— Robin Williams

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

— Dustin Clare

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

— Taya Kyle

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

— Robert Boswell

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

— Anonymous

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

— Michael Rapaport

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

— Santino Fontana

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for…

— Markus Zusak

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate…

— Henry Parry Liddon

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However,…

— Colleen McCullough

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom…

— Lisa Unger

Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same…

— Michael Eklund

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

— Freda Adler

I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug…

— Beryl Markham

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped…

— Benjamin Franklin

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open…

— Johnny Depp

In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the…

— Annie Besant

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc.…

— Dick Ebersol

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you…

— Margaret Bourke-White

“The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got…

— Bo Schembechler

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various…

— Ambrose Bierce

I think I'm really obsessed with characters that lose their face, in a way. I think it's very moving.

— Bertrand Bonello

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

— Raymond Burr

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

— Brooklyn Sudano

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

— Vince Lombardi

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

— Michaela Watkins

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

— Sylvester Stallone

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

— John Nolte

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

— Alan Tudyk

For an actor, that is the biggest achievement, to be known by your character name.

— Madalsa Sharma

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

— James Wan

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

— William J. Clinton

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

— Richard M. Weaver

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

— Evan Esar

“Valor in the leader is often an expression of the leader's character, fortitude, grace, vulnerability, openness, and honesty.”

— Catherine Robinson-Walker