Character Quotes · Page 345

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

— Kevin Spacey

A lot of people think, like, 'JoJo' is fake or 'JoJo' is a character. But, like, it's not.

— JoJo Siwa

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

— Henry Miller

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

— Will Friedle

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

— Peter Orner

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

— Michael Connelly

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and…

— James A. Garfield

People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't…

— Diablo Cody

As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors,…

— Tricia Helfer

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be…

— Samuel Johnson

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I think people are sexy when they have q sense of humor,when they are smart,when they have a sense of style,when they…

— Chin Chin

He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense…

— Emily Blunt

When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see…

— Bertrand Russell

The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in…

— Philip Kotler

I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like…

— Stana Katic

I definitely wanted to pay homage to what he did and use his performance in the first one as a foundation. But,…

— Dennis Haysbert

Bushmaster was such a great adversary, and Mustafa Shakir, just the way that he embodies him in terms of the power of…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

It's a daunting thing to be playing a real person and to have contact with her and meet her and be in…

— Tatiana Maslany

I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not…

— Paulo Coelho

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of…

— John Lydon

Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

— Jim Starlin

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

— Zebulon Pike

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

— John Stuart Mill

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

— Billy Corgan

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

— Ruta Sepetys

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

— David Hare

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

— Hugo Hamilton

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

— Confucius

“She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!”

— Henry Miller

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

— Chris O'Dowd

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

More than anything, I wanted the role of Kitty Russell, even though some people couldn't see me as that character.

— Amanda Blake