Character Quotes · Page 257

“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.”

— Thomas H. Cook

I like to think of performance-wear just like theater: we're making a character come to life each night.

— Doechii

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

— Jonny Bairstow

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing…

— Angela Robinson

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

— Debi Mazar

“Character is developed out of the choices that we make each day.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

— Alan Dershowitz

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody…

— Meg Cabot

In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about…

— Haifaa al-Mansour

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us…

— Honore de Balzac

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it…

— Amanda Seyfried

Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's…

— Martin Freeman

When people come up to me and say, 'Oh my God - you're that character,' I feel like replying, 'No, I'm just…

— Antonia Thomas

The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything…

— John Steinbeck

'Quick Change' was my first real movie. It was an interesting audition process because there were no lines in the script. Bill…

— Tony Shalhoub

I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's…

— Claire Danes

Understand and apply this vital principle to your life: Your exercise of faith builds character. Fortified character expands your capacity to exercise…

— Richard G. Scott

What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It…

— Elizabeth Bowen

People have such a distinctive look to them these days. Whatever image they're doing, a lot of the time it sums up…

— Travis Fimmel

I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire…

— Nigel Cole

I tend to learn things physically - I guess it's my dance training. I never want to make too many choices too…

— Sharon Lawrence

“The major problem in our lives is to decide and clarify our responsibilities. To truly be committed to a life of honesty,…

— John Bradshaw

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

— J. R. Bourne

“Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.”

— Frank Peretti

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the…

— Ben Nicholas

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

— Morgan Freeman

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

— Karen Mills

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

— Dylan Moran

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

— Lorrie Moore

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

— Rajiv Menon

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

— Victor Cousin

The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'

— Claire Messud

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

— Felix Adler

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

People with good Intentions make Promises, but People with good Character KEEP them…

— Anonymous

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

— Sylvester Stallone

“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”  -Natalie Clifford Barney”

— Genna Rulon

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

— Anonymous