Character Quotes · Page 188

Trying to pull off a character, you have to believe in it or the fans won't believe it.

— Billy Gunn

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

— Nic Pizzolatto

The character of Chandigarh appears to be slow, but people here are quite competitive.

— Varun Sharma

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

— Franz Grillparzer

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

— Nicolas Cage

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.

— James G. Frazer

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

— Justin Hartley

[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of…

— Vincent de Paul

A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best…

— Clare Eames

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly…

— Lewis Carroll

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really…

— Julie Andrews

Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge.…

— Craig Robinson

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight…

— Christian Louboutin

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name…

— Nichelle Nichols

I never thought I'd be anything, coming from a rough neighborhood. So my character was built on the street. I had to…

— George Hill

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending…

— Graham McTavish

I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces…

— Sally Field

“In a world where PG 13 means kinda-sorta-depends on your level of morals, I don’t wish to loosen our kids’ morals just…

— Cyndi Goodgame

I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his…

— Teddy Wayne

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract…

— George Parsons Lathrop

Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,…

— Sarah Waters

I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old…

— Johnny Depp

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

— John Gielgud

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

— David Corbett

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

— Ayn Rand

“Before you deal out your moral judgement on me, perhaps you should ask yourself what you did.”

— Tony Moyle

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

— Jane Austen

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into…

— Ginuwine

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm…

— Zana Marjanovic

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

— Salman Rushdie

Your aim is yours So dont change it for others but Your character is not yours so change it for others.

— Swami Vivekanand

To be one and to be united is a great thing .But to respect the right to be different is even greater.

— Shruti

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my…

— Peter Ackroyd

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

— Lori Loughlin

Style is a form of expression! It's what makes your character your character, to put it in laymen's term.

— Theophilus London