Character Quotes · Page 185

I always felt Dot was one of those characters who should stay the same. She's a simple creature.

— June Brown

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

— Mike Myers

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a…

— Randy Houser

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

— Frank Auerbach

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun…

— John Barrowman

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

— Sadie Frost

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an…

— Mark Twain

Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

I realize everybody wants what they can't have but in the end of the day what you have inside is much more…

— Selena Gomez

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a…

— Eddie Marsan

From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical…

— David Bohm

It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is…

— Alexander Herzen

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in…

— Viggo Mortensen

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to…

— Madeleine Stowe

You can do everything differently in a novel. Hero narrates the novel; we're in his head. You're hearing all his thought processes…

— Jonathan Tropper

One of the players that helps me a lot for example was Kova. I had from day one a very good relationship…

— Kai Havertz

I have always been in favor of a healthy Americanization, but that does not mean a complete disavowal of our German heritage.…

— Carl Schurz

I think that's true of real life - we don't ever know anyone completely. Secrets are very important to creating a narrative…

— Jaume Cabre

We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a…

— Brian Grazer

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue.…

— Simon Blackburn

Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I'm drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they're representing a part…

— Amy Landecker

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

— Reggie Lee

“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.”

— Connie Willis

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

— Marcus Aurelius

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

— Chris Pine

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

— Bjorn Borg

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

— Jane Austen

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

— Francois Rabelais

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

— William Shakespeare

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

— Billy Gibbons

“We’re businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.”

— Orson Scott Card

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

— Armstrong Williams

I am really tired of playing characters who don't care about people.

— Jim Sarbh