Character Quotes · Page 290

There's nothing nicer than a wicked bad person in a story is there? It's fun.

— Harry Enfield

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

— Diane Arbus

The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.

— Alfred North Whitehead

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.

— Brian Azzarello

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

— Elizabeth Hand

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

— Philip Massinger

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Who wouldn't want to play a character whose bottom you get to know before the face?

— Jonathan Bailey

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think…

— Daniel H. Pink

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat…

— Michael B. Jordan

“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My…

— Walt Whitman

The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way…

— Winona Ryder

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a…

— Jhene Aiko

I've just got face: he looks like a brat. The 'I don't like face.' That's how I see it. And I'm not…

— Raheem Sterling

The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were…

— Judd Apatow

If you never fall in love with your character, you'll never be able to do that character justice. No matter who it…

— Hugh Jackman

I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats.…

— David Oyelowo

You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on…

— Scott M. Gimple

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy…

— Brian Tee

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie…

— Jenova Chen

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because…

— John Rhys-Davies

For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from…

— Vicky Krieps

When you finish a project it can be emotional, letting go of a character but also people who were like your family.

— Shira Haas

“Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time than someone else”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every character has to want something, even if it's only a glass of water.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you start playing a character every day for seven weeks, it suddenly starts becoming easier

— Carey Mulligan

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

— Katie Cassidy

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson

Once a particular character becomes a hit, a slew of similar ones are offered to the actor.

— Arshad Warsi

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

— Tyler Posey

“Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.”

— Harold Edmund Stearns

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

— Joseph Addison

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

— Vincent de Paul

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

— Morgan Freeman

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

— Miranda Otto

“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.”

— Abhijit Naskar