Character Quotes · Page 309

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

— Chinua Achebe

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of…

— Melanie Martinez

To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.

— Emily Giffin

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

— Adrian Pasdar

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

— Michael Hirst

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

— John C. Reilly

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and…

— Sophie Thompson

We have full confidence in Jesus Christ. Our confidence rises as the character of God becomes greater and more trustworthy to our…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought…

— Gabrielle Zevin

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that Ive met. Hes really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his…

— Valerie Cruz

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The…

— H. L. Mencken

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be.…

— Kyra Sedgwick

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how…

— Dennis Prager

The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next.…

— Seth MacFarlane

“My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched…

— Sara Baume

“Tolstoy teaches us that compassion is of value and enriches our life only when compassion is severe, which is to say that…

— Norman Mailer

Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to…

— Alan Moore

Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about…

— Ricky Gervais

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong.…

— George Zebrowski

I really feel that actors should really know who they are as characters; they should really study their lines; they should be…

— Oren Moverman

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

— Jim Starlin

Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.

— Terry Venables

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

— Price Pritchett

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

— Katie Finneran

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public…

— William Cobbett

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

— John Olsen

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

— Sanya Malhotra

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

— Benjamin Whichcote

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the…

— Vijay Sethupathi

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

— Travis Fimmel

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally…

— Tommy Wiseau

“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. —Albert Einstein”

— Oliver Benjamin

Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

— Tabu

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius