Character Quotes · Page 336

Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.

— Gary Cahill

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

— Karl Kraus

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

— Maggie Shayne

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

— Ray Bradbury

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

— George Henry Lewes

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured.…

— Ann Radcliffe

I would like to be remembered as someone who gave it all and went for it all, As a woman of strong…

— Zulay Henao

It's harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness. They're thinking and feeling the world, but…

— Viola Davis

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's…

— Billy Bob Thornton

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and…

— Stanley Kubrick

I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire…

— Zack Snyder

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well…

— Dwight Yoakam

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me…

— Barkhad Abdi

... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the…

— John Stuart Mill

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can…

— Kofi Annan

I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that…

— Miranda July

“People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“The law of our being is Love of Life, and its interests and adornments; love of the world in which our lot…

— Albert Pike

I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six…

— Sarah Waters

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political…

— Charles Krauthammer

Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped…

— H. E. Bates

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

— Shaunie O'Neal

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

— Rachel Scott

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

— Marc Webb

I love being the bad guy. I think that the audience prefer me as a bad guy.

— Alberto Del Rio

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

— Luc de Clapiers

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

— Gillian Anderson

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

— Victor Garber

I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.

— Tony Hale

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

— David Bowie

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

— Tom Felton