Character Quotes · Page 183

I thought it was a terrible idea being a supporting character on a football show.

— Connie Britton

A great character will make you more attractive than someone who only has a great face but no substance..

— AKOO

I love my story. I wouldn't change it. It gives it character. It's never been on a silver spoon.

— J. D. Martinez

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

— Larry Crabb

“Take a moral inventory of ways you may be self-sabotaging and then take proactive steps to change them.”

— Susan C. Young

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

— Charlie Chaplin

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people…

— Ice Cube

I loved the Romeo and Juliet of the whole thing; this forbidden love between these two characters.

— Tyler Hoechlin

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may…

— Henry Fielding

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it.…

— Rose McGowan

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head,…

— Jason Reitman

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is…

— June Jordan

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

— Harry Enfield

What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's…

— Jake Epstein

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of…

— R. H. Tawney

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be…

— Emily Post

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.…

— Rollo May

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I…

— Robin Tunney

What I'm going to make sure happens, if I have anything to say about it, now that people are listening - we…

— Paul Raci

Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose.…

— Matthew Kelly

I'm definitely not a dancer. I can move well, but it's more about the acting and the singing for me. Acting and…

— Vanessa Hudgens

In 'The Smurfs,' I was actually a live action character. So, I was a real person in that movie. But I was…

— Jayma Mays

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

— Alphonse Karr

I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.

— Gregory Peck

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

— Evan Esar

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

— Mencius

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

— Sue Grafton

When I approach a character, I don't take it as comedy because I don't know how to do it.

— Sunil Grover

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

— Gary Hamel

I think those are the kind of characters I like to play, people who are flawed and human because we all are.

— Simone Missick

Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a…

— Melissa Francis

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

— Kathryn Lasky

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.

— Amy Jackson

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A picture doesn't clearly define a person's true character,it only tells the person's feelings through facial expressions

— Jummie

In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

— John Singleton