Character Quotes · Page 346

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

— Danny Pudi

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

— Jeffrey Wright

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

You can tell the size of a persons character by the size of the things they allow to upset them.

— Anonymous

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”

— Sophocles

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

— Annie Potts

Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and…

— Donald Miller

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm…

— Alessandro Nivola

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives…

— Marilyn Monroe

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all…

— Akhenaton

Thoughts lead on to purposes; Purposes go forth in action; Actions form habits; Habits decide character; And character fixes our destiny.

— Tryon Edwards

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

But if you can empathise with a character and if you can emotionally resonate with that character and understand their emotional journey,…

— Zoya Akhtar

Brian is an archetypal character, a bit like Don Juan, which is how I play him. He's a blast to play. He…

— Gale Harold

When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that…

— August Wilson

I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action,…

— George Tillman, Jr

There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's…

— Bruce Lipton

Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through…

— James Scott Bell

With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's…

— James Ponsoldt

A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to…

— Jonathan Dee

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart…

— David O. McKay

“The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.”

— Arthur F. Holmes

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

— Chadwick Boseman

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

— Emily Blunt

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

— Joseph Fiennes

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

— Len Wein

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

— Mason Cooley

“I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the…

— Ravindra Shukla

“War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I've said this before: myself and Tommy Shelby, he's the most unlike-me character I have ever played.

— Cillian Murphy

I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.

— Miles Teller

It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.

— Maulana Karenga

Yes, Gimli was a very comedic character, but at the end of the day we understood him almost to be like an…

— Bear McCreary

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

— David Brooks

“What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.”

— Orrin Woodward

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson