Character Quotes · Page 335

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

— Albert Einstein

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

— Rachel Weisz

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

— Brent Sexton

I think I would want to be known for playing unlikeable characters that you like anyway.

— Rachel Sennott

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

— Shirley MacLaine

Look, every actor has a different way of preparing or creating a character and yeah, we all are from different backgrounds.

— Alex Pettyfer

People grow with experience if they are honest & commited to the cause.Honesty & commitment is foundation of character.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

— Brad Garrett

Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the…

— Lizzy Caplan

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the…

— Doug TenNapel

“Morality is separate from the ideals of men. It exists whole somewhere, to be approached—but never truly understood—by the mortal. The Philosophy…

— Brandon Sanderson

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to…

— Kit Williamson

The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few…

— Constantin Stanislavski

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer…

— Frederick Wiseman

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its…

— George Catlin

Sometimes the best television for me is when you see a character do something that you morally disagree with, but you love…

— Gareth Evans

“In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times,…

— Cacilda Jethá

Sometimes you have to make decisions that necessarily exclude the collective. It's more difficult to be a friend - even though they…

— Joshua Ferris

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the…

— Elizabeth Taylor

If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the…

— Lysander Spooner

I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing.…

— Giancarlo Esposito

To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose…

— Val Plumwood

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,…

— James F. Cooper

I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and…

— James Hillman

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

— Emraan Hashmi

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very…

— Wes Anderson

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

— Sophie Swetchine

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The temperament and habit of a person inside and outside of his/her character once he gets to his/her companion.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

— David Edelstein

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.

— Ann Coulter

“You can’t understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.”

— Martyn V. Halm

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

— David Robinson

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

— Tituss Burgess

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

— Edward Thorndike

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

— John D. Rockefeller

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

— Daniel Sharman

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished…

— Sallust

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

— Neha Sharma