Character Quotes · Page 247

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

— John M. Ford

“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

— Matt Dillon

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

— Priyanka Chopra

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

— Sathya Sai Baba

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

— Jennifer Tilly

With press in the past, I've felt like I had to sort of play a character to sort of get through it.

— Monica Barbaro

Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what…

— Katherine Moennig

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming…

— Robert De Niro

But generally I think I'm a good judge of character - you have to be as a DJ to read the crowds…

— Jonas Blue

It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to…

— Eliza Dushku

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern…

— Harry S. Truman

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because…

— Katee Sackhoff

Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search…

— Patrice Pavis

You're always working in the movie. Never was I me, and never have I been me, nor was he him. We were…

— Donald Sutherland

The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers, and honest workmen I…

— Robert E. Howard

“PCA- (Psychological Character Assassination) Is when someone changes from who they are and start living their lives, according to the standards of…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

My agent and I try to be picky with roles so that I can drive my career in different directions and be…

— Kellan Lutz

It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the…

— Robert Harris

It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was…

— Fred Williamson

“Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion…

— Ian McEwan

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined…

— Vince Lombardi

What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

— Sam Shepard

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

— Mila Kunis

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

— Demosthenes

True individuality and character never come to full flower without hard work.

— Senora Roy

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

— Elbert Hubbard

“The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing”

— Dean Cavanagh

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

— Charles H. Townes

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

— Aelred of Rievaulx

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.

— Steven Berkoff

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

— Carlos Fuentes

Most of the characters I've been offered have been very dominating and self-assured, maybe because of the way I look.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

“But I’m starting to think that most villains aren’t evil—they are just misunderstood.”

— Karina Halle