Character Quotes · Page 343

Love is nothing less than a lesson ; and its moral is nothing more than WHY !

— Chandan Ray

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When I am filming a movie, I think I tend to do what I want with my character.

— Park Bo-young

When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.

— Denzel Whitaker

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them

— Carlton Cuse

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

— Anonymous

“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.”

— Evan Esar

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever…

— John Lithgow

I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find…

— Clint Eastwood

Producer Ram Mukherjee was making 'Hum Hindustani' and he wanted to cast me opposite Sunil Dutt. But it was decided that I…

— Saira Banu

“Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the…

— Edgar Cayce

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the…

— Kurt Busiek

Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before…

— Charles Dickens

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who…

— Cus D'Amato

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby…

— Julian Assange

I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All…

— Steve Diggle

According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are…

— Albert J. Nock

But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for…

— Tamsin Egerton

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .…

— Hyrum W. Smith

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and…

— Stephen Covey

In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years…

— John Adams

“Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“It may be that in his rogues the writer gratifies instincts deep-rooted in him, which the manners and customs of a civilised…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

— Marcus Aurelius

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

— Sissy Spacek

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

— Eugene Sue

“No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a warm-hearted person. It's the basis of my character.”

— Truman Capote

I feel Karna is the noblest character in the 'Mahabharat,' and Duryodhan is reason for the war between cousins.

— Puneet Issar

I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

— Aaron Stanford

“...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.”

— Socrates

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

— Steve Buscemi

Don't fall in love with the face and body it won't last long. Fall in love with the spirit,heart and character.

— Hungyo

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character…

— Rose Leslie

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

— Tom Felton

I thought, 'Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?' And it was like, 'Yeah, I'd love to be able to…

— Kathy Burke

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United…

— Edmund Randolph

“the foundation of effectiveness is not first techniques or tools, but character.”

— Matt Perman

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

— Robert Englund

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

— David Walton