Character Quotes · Page 249

“No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.”

— David D. Burns

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

— Laura Carmichael

I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what…

— Radhika Madan

Doing acts of kindness is not the same as being kind. An act of kindness is finite. Being kind is an internal…

— B D Schiers

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all…

— Martin Luther

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

— Sarah Paulson

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

— John Green

It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are…

— Yael Stone

“A man has the strength to face what he is thrown in life. If he falls or is beaten, he does not…

— Cheryl Matthynssens

It was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so…

— Sean Bean

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in…

— Alexandre Dumas

I have done 16 films with David Dhawan and I have tried to do every character differently, be it Sharafat Ali, Mutthu…

— Satish Kaushik

Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made…

— Jennifer Tilly

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on…

— Anthony LaPaglia

Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who…

— African Spir

It's interesting to play that [ Thomas in The Maze Runner], actually. The audience gets to see the character discover who he…

— Dylan O'Brien

“Honor He Wrote (The Sonnet) I am not a writer, writers have limits, I have none, I only have responsibility, The responsibility…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in…

— Hugh of Saint Victor

Just the way LA is laid out - 30 miles of disparate neighborhoods - adds to the loneliness of the characters. There's…

— Paul Rust

I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted…

— Tim Kang

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward…

— Walter Anderson

I'll try to find a character or a story that is different from those I've done before.

— Shin Min-a

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

— Anonymous

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

— Elmore Leonard

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

Someday, I hope I live in a world where people look at the heart of a person instead of the color of…

— Anonymous

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

— Salim Kumar

“Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.”

— Dee Henderson

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

— Friedrich Schiller

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be passionate about who you are and what you stand for. Set an example for others to follow.

— Anonymous

If you can't be honest or don't have integrity, then you won't have a high standards without good discipline.

— Wazim Shaw

“When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.”

— Richard Marcel I

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

— Kurt Vonnegut