Character Quotes · Page 306

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

— Anson Mount

Doing acts of kindness is not the same as being kind. An act of kindness is finite. Being kind is an internal…

— B D Schiers

I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what…

— Radhika Madan

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

— Sarah Paulson

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all…

— Martin Luther

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

— Anonymous

I'll try to find a character or a story that is different from those I've done before.

— Shin Min-a

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much…

— Dean Koontz

Humility is similar to humanity with both being deepily connected with the behavioural kindness as the first priority on the ground of…

— Anuj Somany

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in…

— Sefi Atta

The supporting characters typically carry less story/plot weight - so you can be more broad and pushed with them. Supporting characters also…

— Nathan Greno

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Bobby Heenan to me, he was the best. Of all the guys that have been managers that can pick up a microphone…

— Ted DiBiase Sr

There is no similarity between the character that I played in 'Fukrey' and 'Tamanchey.' The only thing that is similar is that…

— Richa Chadha

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is…

— Rebecca West

I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide…

— Charlie Kaufman

“The virtue of Pride can best be described by the term: "moral ambitiousness." It means that one must earn the right to…

— Ayn Rand

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against…

— Charles Dickens

I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think…

— William Weld

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

— John Green

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

— Elmore Leonard

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

Someday, I hope I live in a world where people look at the heart of a person instead of the color of…

— Anonymous

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

— Salim Kumar

“Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.”

— Dee Henderson

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

— Friedrich Schiller

Be passionate about who you are and what you stand for. Set an example for others to follow.

— Anonymous

“When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.”

— Richard Marcel I

If you can't be honest or don't have integrity, then you won't have a high standards without good discipline.

— Wazim Shaw

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero