Character Quotes · Page 354

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien…

— Jeremy Irons

It doesn't matter what we do until we accept ourself, but once we accept ourselfs what we do matters

— Charly Heaverich

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

— Ambrose Bierce

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

— Chris Hemsworth

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

— Peter Drucker

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

— Holly Hunter

“we have smuggled in a misleadingly ‘ethical’ vocabulary to bolster our economic arguments,”

— Tony Judt

I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type…

— Max von Sydow

Only rendering dialogue and doing acting do not work with me. One has to get into the character, the actor has to…

— Sanjay Mishra

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the…

— Mark Twain

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different…

— David Tennant

What a character wears and how it affects their mood and their movements has always been very important to me. A character's…

— Zawe Ashton

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly…

— Anuj Somany

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script,…

— Martin Starr

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to…

— Steven Spielberg

Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each…

— Al Hirschfeld

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.…

— John Steinbeck

I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we…

— Cinco Paul

We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of…

— Pete Docter

My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or…

— Dave McKean

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,…

— James A. Garfield

“All of us - all who knew her - felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful…

— Toni Morrison

I would say there is probably a little bit of me in each character. But Purrscilla is a lot like me because…

— Lisa Frank

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

— Gunnar Myrdal

I kind of am a villain, I guess. Like if you push me too far, you can see the villain side of…

— Larsa Pippen

Does not the possibility or the power to do something about the situation at hand confer on one the responsibility to do…

— Rollo May

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

— David Fincher

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

— Henry David Thoreau

Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.

— Nicole Nielsen Horanyi

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your…

— Matt Berry

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

— Confucius

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

— C. V. Wedgwood

The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.

— Jeffrey Klarik

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

— Arthur Helps

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

— Ron Kuby

“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”

— David O. McKay

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

— Nick Saban

It was fun to create characters who had truth to them but were also made up so as not to completely offend!

— Zoe Cassavetes