Character Quotes · Page 352

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

— Stephen Dorff

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

— Michael Shannon

I am confident about who I am as a person, my character, and as a human being.

— Masai Ujiri

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

— Joseph Joubert

“A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.”

— Maralee McKee

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

— Ace Frehley

You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so…

— J. B. Smoove

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

— Washington Allston

I'm lucky in that in my character in hip hop is me. I'm Michael Render. My character is Killer Mike. But the…

— Killer Mike

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character,…

— Terence Stamp

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

As women, especially when you're in an environment like school, you have to dilute yourself, because there isn't space for the fully…

— Aimee Lou Wood

To be able to win one game at Old Trafford or at one of the other strong sides in the country you…

— Marco Silva

I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do…

— Kajol

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really…

— John Wooden

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to…

— Alexander Koch

Sometimes you walk away from playing somebody and you think, "Wow that was far as from my own experience as I can…

— Kevin Spacey

I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two…

— Paul Laffoley

There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to…

— Harrison Ford

What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching…

— Dallas Willard

“You're going to meet people in this world who are fine, quality people. They'll build your character, and you want to hang…

— Ruthi Postow Birch

“Someone has said,”Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one’s ignorance.”..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the…

— Anonymous

I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible…

— Lauren Groff

I have done great characters in Malayalam, too. In that sense, there was nothing special about my acting as Ambedkar. But I…

— Mammootty

“The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn’t offer anything besides itself.”

— Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of…

— Richard Gere

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

— Nicholas Braun

“In a man, you have to look for character and security, going beyond his age.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

— Shelley Long

Some people are dead but their character kept them alive, while others are alive but their character killed them.

— Anonymous

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

— John Adams

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

— Henry Cloud

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

“In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”

— Amit Kalantri

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

— John Wayne

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just…

— Tinashe

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke