Character Quotes · Page 329

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I'm going to miss that…

— Jason Momoa

It's not often that you get to play somebody that has absolutely no cynicism or is not judgmental in any way.

— Paul Rudd

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

— Janet Evanovich

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not…

— Mark Twain

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

— Augustus Hare

People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

— John Oliver

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

— Buffalo Bill

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

— Mark Twain

I like directors who come ready to challenge you to ask the right questions about your character, and I know that directors…

— Joshua Henry

“You’ve got a point. But I like it better when the bad guys are just the bad guys.” “There’s always plenty of…

— J.D. Robb

I don't want to be a nobody in a film. It's okay if it is not a lead character, but it should…

— Uday Chopra

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul…

— Aristotle

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build…

— Josh Lucas

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their…

— Parminder Nagra

All things are possible to those who believe, less difficult to those who hope, more easy to those who love, and still…

— Kirk Cameron

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But…

— Sinqua Walls

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going…

— Emory Cohen

It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it,…

— Denzel Washington

Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the…

— Rich Mullins

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…

— David Foster Wallace

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in…

— Blaise Pascal

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect.…

— Tim Curry

I hope that role will allow people to see me as something else. Harry Potter will be the character that got me…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.

— Tom Selleck

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

— Keri Russell

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

— Tom Rickman

It's doesn't matter how different your characters are. Just find a common goal!

— Anonymous

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice”

— Gena Showalter

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

In the film 'Paisa' my character can't be called glamorous. It's more performance oriented.

— Catherine Tresa

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

— Walton Goggins

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

— Franz Grillparzer

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's nice to play someone who functions in a very different way than I do.

— Devin Kelley

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

— Max Cannon

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

— Aristotle

I have played bad-guy roles, but they were significant to the story.

— Lyriq Bent

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

— Evan Rachel Wood

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

— George McGovern