Character Quotes · Page 350

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

— Eric Heiden

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

— Michael Pitt

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

— Amy Smart

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

— Stefan Kapicic

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

— Mike White

“My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You…

— Cameron Britton

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the…

— Roger Moore

With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary,…

— Taryn Manning

“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”

— Roy T. Bennett

My character on 'The Sopranos' was specific to being a single mother and being from Jersey. And being part of that season…

— Dania Ramirez

“You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal…

— Steve Maraboli

What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that…

— Scott Derrickson

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to…

— Vanessa Hudgens

I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the…

— J. G. Ballard

“In a famous passage, Mill explained Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, in order…

— Mary Pickering

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something…

— George Saunders

I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it…

— Emma Healey

Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them…

— Channing Tatum

'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the…

— Gene Roddenberry

It is true that social media, nowadays, is important, but I don't understand everyone needing to know everything about an artist or…

— Zoey Deutch

When a man sets to imitate another man but not his morals, then he have decided to add mess to the society.

— Terry Mark

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

— Jacques Maritain

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

— Napoleon Hill

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

— Sara Zarr

I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.

— John Hurt

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

— Sanya Malhotra

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the…

— Vijay Sethupathi

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

— Benjamin Whichcote

“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. —Albert Einstein”

— Oliver Benjamin

Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

— Tabu

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

— Travis Fimmel

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally…

— Tommy Wiseau

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham