Character Quotes · Page 209

In 'Karol Bagh,' I was playing a supporting role, the character had grey shades.

— Sargun Mehta

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice…

— Anonymous

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

— Isaac Asimov

“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

— Vanessa Paradis

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

— Chris Hemsworth

EC3 began as a spoiled brat, and I felt it was important for the fans to be able to relate to the…

— Ethan Carter III

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely…

— Aleatha Romig

With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or…

— Viggo Mortensen

My first word for the people of Brazil is the word 'confidence.' Confidence in the values that form the character of our…

— Michel Temer

When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them…

— Mark Waid

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto…

— Julianne Moore

Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of…

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

Working with photographer Mario Testino on Bulgari's 2017 global campaign in Italy was an incredible moment for me. I could see the…

— Lily Aldridge

Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes…

— Wilferd Peterson

If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main…

— Tenzin Palmo

“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed.…

— David Mitchell

The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took…

— Vanessa Redgrave

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.…

— Richard Price

Whenever I read a script or sign a film, I don't see whether he is a bad guy or a good guy.…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like…

— Neil Patrick Harris

“For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. To”

— Tony Hsieh

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

— Jonathan Swift

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

— Madame de Stael

When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like.

— James Spader

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

— Epictetus

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

— Tamora Pierce

“To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.”

— John Leonard

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

— Tracey Ullman

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up…

— Sienna Miller

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

— Eugene Simon

The whole Aleister Black character is a creation of my influences, Triple H and NXT, and everyone combined.

— Aleister Black

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.

— Tony Hale

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

— Victor Garber

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

— David Bowie

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

— Gillian Anderson