Character Quotes · Page 197

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

— Arundhati Roy

“IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.”

— FILM CRIT HULK

Believe in yourself don't lower your moral to fit it just be true to yourself

— Syntific

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

— Freeman Dyson

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

— Paul Coffey

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

— Donal Logue

People liked me in the character of an old person and I started liking that too.

— Alok Nath

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while

— Jeri Ryan

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about…

— Callie Khouri

Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If…

— Harvey Pekar

I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more…

— Greg Evigan

For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.…

— Red Smith

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and…

— Arthur Koestler

There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.

— Samuel R. Delany

It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and…

— Henry A. Kissinger

But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough…

— William Butler Yeats

“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person…

— Ayn Rand

What HAPPINESS Means... To A Poor Barefoot Person, Happiness Is A Pair Of Shoes. To a Person With An Old Shoe, It's…

— Pacifiersucker

“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that…

— Jonathan Swift

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

I make a playlist for every character I portray. Music plays a huge part in helping me understand a character. Every time…

— Richard Harmon

Knowing that I was the first version of Misty Knight, a character that was created 40 years ago is one thing. But…

— Simone Missick

Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability…

— Nomy Arpaly

What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies…

— Mike Flanagan

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

— Vladimir Lenin

My publisher feels that my readers are loyal to the voice of my stories, the characters I'm creating.

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

— Isaiah Washington

Your most powerful testimony is how you treat others after the church service is over.

— Anonymous

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

— Confucius

All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.

— David Brock

I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.

— Zach Woods

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

— Christopher Lasch

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”

— Voltaire

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

— Josh Hopkins

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

Remember! People never change. They just start to show their true colors.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“If you want to know a person’s true character, observe how he treats those who don’t matter.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.

— Robert A. Cook