Character Quotes · Page 252

One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

— Ron Rash

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

— Mark Twain

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It's much better as an actor if you can bring as much of yourself as possible to a character.

— Adrian Dunbar

“I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.”

— Veronica Roth

Trump is kind of fascinating. I wish he was only seen in black-and-white 'cause he's like a character from the 1890s.

— Ad-Rock

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

— George Santayana

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

— Marianne Williamson

I believe I am yet to dance my favorite role, but I am pretty open to adapting to different characters. I would…

— Misty Copeland

You want the character to keep being able to grow through the process of writing, through the process of filming, and editing,…

— Anna Boden

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't…

— Max Walker

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

— Lasse Hallstrom

, I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on…

— Max von Essen

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so…

— Danae Elon

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own,…

— Jim Carrey

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to…

— Heinrich Heine

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in…

— Samuel L. Jackson

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the…

— Anton Corbijn

In my professional career, every time I jumped into an organization, I always reached the top and the title. I know with…

— Ken Shamrock

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in…

— Agatha Christie

The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do…

— Stephen Colbert

“A notion of character, not so much discredited as simply forgotten, once held that people only came into themselves partway through their…

— Gregory Maguire

There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest…

— Edmund Spenser

Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't feel like I'm a character; I certainly don't feel like I'm a gimmick. I am who I am.

— Kevin Owens

A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize…

— Michael McKean

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I love the Walking Dead, but I dont wanna be an actual prominent character on the show. I just wanna be a…

— Liana Liberato

I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to…

— Scott Bakula

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

— Nicole Kidman

“The moral is that people are paying less attention to you than you believe.”

— Richard H. Thaler

I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

— Marti Noxon

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

— Owen Feltham

True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

— Stephen Covey

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

— Vince Lombardi

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

“We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.

— Laurie Holden

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason