Character Quotes · Page 242

What's so strong about 'Game of Thrones' is that it's a character and political drama, with a sort of fantasy backdrop.

— Elijah Wood

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

— CJ Adams

“Aristotle defined the virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

Anytime anyone gets passionate over a character you're playing, I think you've done your job well.

— Scott Foley

I like to play characters who are flawed - the big man brought down.

— Lenny Henry

A tactic of cruel people is to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

— Anonymous

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a…

— Brit Marling

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot…

— A. Powell Davies

I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same…

— Emma Kenney

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

— Eddy de Clercq

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

— Keeley Hawes

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on…

— Elizabeth Reaser

I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have]…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part…

— Nicolas Cage

“I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner,…

— Abhijit Naskar

Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that…

— Chang-Rae Lee

A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding…

— Ellen G. White

“[Faith] makes salvation dependent on itself, not on the fulfilment of common human duties. … [I]nwardly morality is subordinate to faith, so…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor…

— Brandon Lee

I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not…

— Tatiana Maslany

To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not…

— Billy Boyd

I don't feel the pressure to deliver an unrealistically great man to the screen; I just want to be honest to who…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.

— Tila Tequila

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

— John Morley

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

— Matt LeBlanc

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

— Walton Goggins

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

— Sameera Reddy

There is no greater tragedy for a man than a total lack of character.

— Sergei Dovlatov

See, there are just that many in 'character' roles that you can get. So I will wait for something mind-blowing to come…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

— Sophie Okonedo

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved.

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

— Eckhart Tolle

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

— Dorothy Atkinson

“She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.”

— Isaac Asimov

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

— Joseph Addison

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

— Edward Abbey