Character Quotes · Page 324

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

— Oscar Wilde

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

— Karin Slaughter

To be remembered by name for a character, with a sort of guilty joy, is... aw man, it's marvellous.

— Paterson Joseph

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

— Aristotle

“Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

— Jane Campion

I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as…

— Jonathan Jackson

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the…

— Charlie Hunnam

“So what do you need to present a new character? Four keys elements: 1. Their physical attributes 2. Their personality 3. Their background 4. Their agenda”

— Rob Parnell

The moment any film has song and dance sequences - where any time any character can start singing and dancing without any…

— Sajid Khan

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers…

— Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...…

— Aristotle

Both films and TV have their compunctions, their positives and negatives. For example, I explored a character at great length in 'Maryada'...…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit…

— Nouman Ali Khan

I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I…

— Janet Jackson

Every single character and every single person in real life can all be 16 or 17 years old and maybe live in…

— Sydney Sweeney

I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s,…

— Edmund White

It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because…

— Sam Harris

Some actors, and especially the younger actors, they come into the job with a lot of attention on how they behave and…

— Beau Bridges

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When…

— Thomas Paine

My father once said there's a correlation between a nation's cuisine and its people: England, nice people, nasty food; France, nice food,…

— Martin Amis

Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world…

— Robin Hobb

Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.

— Thomas Adams

You never feel lonely if you're writing, because you're living with all these characters in your head.

— Julie Andrews

The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.

— Sundar Pichai

I always just get excited about the character. When something rings true for me, then I'm ready to do it.

— Bridget Regan

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

— Alberto Moravia

It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.

— Abbie Cobb

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy…

— John Lasseter

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

— L. P. Jacks

When you have a meaty character to play opposite an actor you like, it becomes a memorable experience.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

— James Gunn

A lot of celebrities can be very, very fake. They all have this character, but I'm purely just myself.

— Charlotte Crosby

“Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart…

— Robin M. Bertram

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You can judge someone’s character by what he does when no one’s watching.”

— Bob Burg

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

— Marc Maron

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

— James K. Polk