Character Quotes · Page 248

“She was sorceress on paper, a goddess in her mind but a mere peasant to everyone living in her present times.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.

— Alan Sepinwall

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

— Bertrand Russell

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

— Sergio Aragones

It's parent's instinct on how they will mold their child's character, knowledge and talent.

— Anonymous

I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

— Ally Walker

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have…

— Matthew Ashford

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in…

— Shelley Long

At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called…

— Glen Keane

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery…

— Swami Vivekananda

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing…

— Loren Bouchard

After 'Star Trek,' I was the commander on 'Stargate Atlantis,' the final season, and once my character had become a good commander,…

— Robert Picardo

“Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with…

— Ashly Lorenzana

When you see these characters like Captain America or Thor, laughing at their own situation or about how strange they are, then…

— Joss Whedon

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected.…

— Stephenie Meyer

We don't live for realities, but for the fantasies, the dreams of what might be. If we lived for reality, we'd be…

— Michael Shurtleff

Dogwalker is a book of fiction, with characters based on the types of people who truly exist in the world. I've seen…

— Arthur Bradford

In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told…

— Paul Beatty

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to…

— Richard Whately

For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I…

— Asa Butterfield

Yeah, my role is gonna be a character by the name of Yondu. And there's gonna be more of Yondu. Yondu is…

— Michael Rooker

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

Arjun is very close to my heart, and even the audiences associate me with the character.

— Shaheer Sheikh

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

— Anonymous

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a…

— Thomas Huxley

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

— George Edward Woodberry

“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.”

— Megan Crane

I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.

— Cobie Smulders

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

— Mick Jagger

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and…

— Norman Jewison

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

— Edgar Cayce

Do not fall in love with the face and body. Instead, fall in love with the spirit, heart and character.

— Anonymous

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

— Aldo Leopold

I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.

— Essie Davis

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

— Taika Waititi

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

— Anson Mount