Character Quotes · Page 287

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical

— Loretta Swit

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

— John Marshall

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we…

— Neil Gaiman

There's something so beautiful in playing a character that supports another character's success.

— Beanie Feldstein

Character is like colour of a red rose,it is more catchy ,even though existing colour roses are beautiful.

— Ash Sweeney

The best character types are the ones you can be creative with and totally delve into...

— Noah Hathaway

You'd be naive if you think you are going to retain any control once you option a character to TV.

— Kathy Reichs

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant…

— Nell Freudenberger

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ -…

— Daniel Goleman

Once the audience has to use themselves to cross the distance to the character, that's what's really exciting. That's when it starts…

— Dallas Roberts

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the…

— Geraldine Jewsbury

I think it's good to leave people with the memory of that being a great character. And if we have a reason…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I want to present a really interesting vision of [Jack] Kirby's characters and environments, as well as dig way, way deeper into…

— Sterling Gates

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of…

— Peter Hitchens

I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience.…

— Dean Winters

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…

— Kenneth Patchen

The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of…

— C.E. Morgan

One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his…

— Charles Dickens

I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we…

— Stana Katic

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and…

— Charity Shea

For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very…

— Nick Kroll

Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from…

— Ty Burrell

Stay alert. The big moral crossroads in your life may not come labeled as such.

— George Saunders

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of…

— David Koechner

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Do not look for Beauty, Beauty lives three days, look for Character, which lives all your life, and it's who you are

— Melchor Lim

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I’d rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body.

— Joey King

Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.

— Ralph Bakshi

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human…

— Julia Alvarez

I can't be under the weight of the character for a 14-hour shooting day. I don't think anybody can do that.

— Robert Loggia

I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.

— Rohan Marley

The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

You know my character, I'm obviously that sexy-hot bombshell that nobody else has.

— Mandy Rose

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

— Cara Buono

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

— Mahatma Gandhi