Character Quotes · Page 216

Macklin, being Macklin, just took on a life of his own. I almost never use real people as models for my characters.

— James Patterson

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them

— Carlton Cuse

“Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.”

— Evan Esar

“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

— Anonymous

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

— Albert Einstein

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

— Foxy Brown

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

— Carl Bernstein

Well, you know, I think the way to approach any character is just with a deep sense of empathy for whoever it…

— Mike Faist

“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had…

— Agatha Christie

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is…

— Graham Sutherland

The significance of playing a South Asian character that's a lead role in a network primetime television show is certainly not lost…

— Tiya Sircar

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the…

— Walter Jon Williams

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy…

— Eddie Izzard

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story…

— William Shatner

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny…

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden…

— Miklós Bánffy

“So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time: And power, unto itself most commendable, Hath not a tomb so evident…

— William Shakespeare

The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,…

— Aisha Hinds

Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on…

— E. M. Forster

“What do you consider to be the greatest social virtue? In private conversation Evstafi Ivanovitch once told me that the greatest social…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of…

— Allen W. Wood

My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet 'La Fille Mal Gardee.' She's a crazy social climbing woman…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

— Denzel Whitaker

When I am filming a movie, I think I tend to do what I want with my character.

— Park Bo-young

Love is nothing less than a lesson ; and its moral is nothing more than WHY !

— Chandan Ray

You can tell the size of a persons character by the size of the things they allow to upset them.

— Anonymous

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

— Jeffrey Wright

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

— Danny Pudi

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

More than anything, I wanted the role of Kitty Russell, even though some people couldn't see me as that character.

— Amanda Blake

“The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.”

— Arthur F. Holmes

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

— Annie Potts

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

— Emily Blunt

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

— Chadwick Boseman

“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV