Character Quotes · Page 318

I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.

— Abi Morgan

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

— Kathleen Turner

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be…

— Horace

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

— Jack McBrayer

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

— Val Guest

“Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment.”

— Dean Koontz

It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

— James Scott

It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.

— James B. Stewart

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters…

— Paula Patton

My only criteria while selecting roles is that it should be a lead part in an interesting story where the character has…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

We've been pretty successful over the years, not necessarily adding series regulars, but just bringing long-term recurring characters. In my opinion, it's…

— Aaron Korsh

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is…

— Rajneesh

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move…

— Bel Powley

You want to be able to say [to Ethan Hawke's character], "Dude, it's okay," but maybe it's not. Maybe he's not a…

— Ti West

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa,…

— Olivia Wilde

Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to…

— Kristen Schaal

“Emotions properly trained and modulated, Aristotle told his readers, are essential to being practically wise: We can experience fear, confidence, desire, anger,…

— Barry Schwartz

I've been very lucky to have been chosen for and to have chosen roles that are good. Some are better than others…

— Linda Cardellini

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm…

— Aaron Sorkin

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character…

— Philippe Falardeau

I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've…

— Callum Keith Rennie

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song…

— John Mayer

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as…

— Michael Ondaatje

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

— Peter Shaffer

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Treating important people well is wisdom; treating unimportant people well is virtue; treating all people well is LOVE.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love…

— Keala Settle

I think with the best characters, you want to see them go on a journey, Partridge being the best example of that.

— Jamie Demetriou

A strong person stands up for themselves. But a stronger person stands up for others.

— Adrian Rayshawn

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.

— Ted Malloch

For me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

— Shemar Moore

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

— Nicholas Hoult

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

— Semir Zeki

True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!

— Karl Ludwig von Knebel

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

— Susan Sontag

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

— Michael Shurtleff

“I am deficient in character, and if I had more of it, I would be ashamed of the fact.”

— Jack Matthews