Character Quotes · Page 278

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

— Isaiah Washington

I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.

— Bill Skarsgard

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

— Samuel Smiles

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

— Richard Morris

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

— Anonymous

I've actually always wanted to play the character a bit 'off'. I think that could be fun.

— Christopher Sieber

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

— Dick Francis

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might…

— Timothy Spall

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's…

— Timothy Miller

I loved all the characters I've gotten to play. Mary Cherry will always be my most favorite and always have a place…

— Leslie Grossman

It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that…

— Allison Janney

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where…

— Seth Rogen

I like to get pretty specific with a character. Not only behavior, but emotional. I go really deep into emotions and get…

— Heidi Gardner

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults…

— William Shakespeare

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense…

— George Washington

“The myth that morality and fidelity are old-fashioned and trite can imprison more than just one individual as generations are affected by…

— Sandra Rogers

For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character…

— Rajneesh

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is…

— Bruce Feiler

That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your…

— Nayvadius Cash

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an…

— Stephen Vizinczey

There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the…

— Nat Hentoff

You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.”

— Tiruvalluvar

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

I love villainous characters; they are so exciting to play. They are so different and challenging.

— Vivek Oberoi

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

TV is done so quickly that you really don't have time to develop the character fully.

— Nick Searcy

“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

— Lee Martin

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

— Mindy Kaling

Sometimes a person's personality can really replace their appearance.

— Anonymous

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

— Socrates

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

— Grenville Kleiser

The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality.

— Yoko Taro

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

— Spike Jonze

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

— Robert Redford

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

— Tacitus

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt