Character Quotes · Page 289

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

— Anagarika Govinda

I'd say Bill Bixby's character in 'Beantown' is Tom Brokaw with a heart and a sense of humor.

— Mariette Hartley

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.”

— J.Adam Snyder

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

— Eva Green

I like to be in character a good few hours before I arrive for filming.

— Daniel Mays

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in…

— Ryan Reynolds

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about…

— Haaz Sleiman

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my…

— Michael Fassbender

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader…

— Richard Corliss

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're…

— Hugo Weaving

Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character…

— Muhtar Kent

So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted…

— Molly Antopol

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

— Vladimir Putin

It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from…

— Horace Bushnell

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and…

— Juliet Asante

Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a 'Silence Of The Lambs' type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of…

— Kurt Fuller

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many,…

— George Lucas

The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,…

— Michael Chekhov

Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a…

— Gena Showalter

I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I…

— Cary Elwes

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can…

— Angelina Jolie

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the…

— Puneet Issar

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

— Keri Russell

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

— Joan Didion

I'm not a singer. I've sung in character, but it's just not my thing.

— Josh Pais

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

— Derek Jacobi

When I do a character or a project, I really want to get into the role.

— Harris Dickinson

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

— William Shakespeare

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

— Barry Sloane

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

— Confucius

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as…

— Paul Auster

The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters.

— George Jackson

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.

— Daniel Hudson

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

— Peter De Vries