Character Quotes · Page 351

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.

— Price Pritchett

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

— Katie Finneran

Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.

— Terry Venables

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

— Jim Starlin

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public…

— William Cobbett

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

— John Olsen

It's much juicier to play somebody a little more evil than Dudley Do-Right.

— Adrian Pasdar

If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,…

— Simonides

Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day.…

— Gordon Korman

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times;…

— Megan Chance

I always play outsiders. I think I'm carrying a lot of those characters and I wonder if I play them because those…

— Zawe Ashton

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against…

— Marilyn French

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I…

— Estelle Parsons

“People can steal your skills and your knowledge, but they won't be able to steal your mindset and character. The investment in…

— Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you…

— Patrick Wilson

I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that… The real job of every…

— Anonymous

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful…

— Matthew Scully

“Vanda (as Dunayev): In our society, a woman's only power is through men. Her character is her lack of character. She's a…

— David Ives

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“The moral of this story is simple. Some moms are equipped by the hand of God to be “that mom.” They have…

— Lysa TerKeurst

A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice…

— Edward Gibbon

Growing up with a famous father, and one who mastered his craft, it's one of those things where, do you really want…

— Charlotte Flair

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

— Michael Hirst

The less people know about me in reality, the more they can accept of me as a character.

— John C. Reilly

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

— Robin Day

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

— Kevin Spacey

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

— John Howe

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

— Chinua Achebe

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of…

— Melanie Martinez

To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.

— Emily Giffin

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

— Joseph Campbell

I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.

— Charlie Heaton

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

— Delmore Schwartz

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice. “Through”

— Gena Showalter

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

— William Shatner

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

— Stewart O'Nan

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

— Jonah Hill

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

— Clive Owen