Character Quotes · Page 281

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett

The true character stands up when you are deeply tested by life...

— Anonymous

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is…

— Victor Hugo

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

— Sharon Gless

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

— David Thewlis

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not…

— Stephen Moore

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own…

— Marge Piercy

Any time I approach a scene, it's not just what's on the page - it's how the camera's going to show or…

— Sam Esmail

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional…

— Peter Jackson

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

— Michael Shermer

Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and…

— Rami Malek

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another…

— James MacGregor Burns

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or…

— Emma Goldman

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and…

— Gucci Mane

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been…

— John Dryden

But now, I think I have found a corner, a groove of what kind of stories I want to be part of…

— Amit Sadh

One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I've been lucky that even when I was younger, just because of my look or whatever, I was afforded the opportunity or…

— Tony Shalhoub

“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue…

— Victoria Hanley

People either think Hodor is a very easy character to play or a very difficult one; there's no in between. But it's…

— Kristian Nairn

“Your respect for people does not mean you need them This is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.”

— Waciny Laredj

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

— Nick Kroll

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

— Ann Beattie

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

— Noah Schnapp

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

— Ti West

Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.”

— Christopher Paolini

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

— Lambert of Maastricht

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

— Confucius

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

— Kiara Advani

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who…

— Nat Wolff

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon