Character Quotes · Page 305

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

It's parent's instinct on how they will mold their child's character, knowledge and talent.

— Anonymous

I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

— Ally Walker

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

— Bertrand Russell

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

— Sergio Aragones

When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.

— Alan Sepinwall

Arjun is very close to my heart, and even the audiences associate me with the character.

— Shaheer Sheikh

“The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little…

— Paul David Tripp

The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to…

— Dave Brat

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and…

— Peter Behrens

It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've…

— Jacki Weaver

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast…

— Bobby Vinton

I was having to go out there and be this happy pop character when, in reality, I was processing this unaddressed trauma…

— Raye

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real…

— James McGreevey

“I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone. But that's impossible. I'm stuck with…

— Anne Frank

“Building of character is the only true practice of Yoga, and it is the only way we can really help humanity. Christ…

— Swami Paramananda

There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read…

— Chris Ware

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave…

— Kerry Washington

My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities…

— Milo Ventimiglia

In fact, [Gene Wilder] had made a hysteric seem considerably less funny in his film debut as a terrified undertaker in "Bonnie…

— Gene Wilder

“Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process…

— Alexander McCall Smith

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy.

— Mick Jagger

I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.

— Cobie Smulders

“Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.”

— Megan Crane

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

— Anonymous

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a…

— Thomas Huxley

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

— George Edward Woodberry

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.

— Essie Davis

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

— Aldo Leopold

Do not fall in love with the face and body. Instead, fall in love with the spirit, heart and character.

— Anonymous

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

— Edgar Cayce

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and…

— Norman Jewison

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

— Laura Carmichael

“No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.”

— David D. Burns

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

— Taika Waititi