Character Quotes · Page 225

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourself, but once we accept ourselfs what we do matters

— Charly Heaverich

Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

— Sylvester Stallone

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

— Robert Duvall

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

— Jeff Britting

I always do what the character demands, and I love to experiment with my looks.

— Aishwarya Rajesh

“Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.”

— Vikram Roy

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

— Peter Jacobson

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character,…

— Anonymous

All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like…

— Mike Judge

“She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches…

— Anthony Liccione

I've seen some movies where people improvise and will say some bizarre phrase they had heard the other day, and unless it's…

— Scot Armstrong

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the…

— Patricia Richardson

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've…

— Maria Bamford

Anything that forces the human soul to scream out and fight really brings out the best in us, and to have an…

— Nathan Parsons

Michael Myers is a very famous character. This is the ninth movie with Michael Myers, and when you put on that mask…

— Tyler Mane

“God has not given us specific instructions for each and every possible ethical issue we face, but neither are we left to…

— R.C. Sproul

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability…

— Tom Lehrer

It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something…

— Mindy Kaling

I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid…

— Beau Bridges

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then…

— Margaret Atwood

One of my first jobs was in a soap opera, five days a week. And what I found is, although there are…

— Idris Elba

The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never…

— Mike Colter

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Fidelity is a virtue which should be frequently proved, but not always.

— Omar Sharif

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.

— Hillary Clinton

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not…

— Carroll O'Connor

It gives you a high when you create characters and make them do what you want them to do.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

“The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...”

— Eve A. Floriste

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

— Felicity Jones

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

— Rajkummar Rao

For me, the content and the character that I play are the two most important factors.

— Rubina Dilaik

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

— Manu Joseph

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

— Thomas Jefferson

“In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”

— Amit Kalantri

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just…

— Tinashe

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

— John Wayne