Character Quotes · Page 357

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

Do not fall in love with the face and body. Instead, fall in love with the spirit, heart and character.

— Anonymous

Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

— Edgar Cayce

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and…

— Norman Jewison

I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.

— Essie Davis

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

— Aldo Leopold

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

— Carlos Fuentes

Most of the characters I've been offered have been very dominating and self-assured, maybe because of the way I look.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn't born until 1961,…

— Don Mattingly

I don't suffer from what I believe a lot of actors suffer from, in that they have to do certain things to…

— Keith Allen

What I enjoyed about being in the world of Jessica Jones, as Luke Cage, is that I wasn't front and center because…

— Mike Colter

I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and…

— Dakota Fanning

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal…

— Jane Yolen

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of…

— Nancy Gibbs

I like being able to go to the cinema and sit and spend time observing something without thinking about plot or what…

— David Lowery

You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that.…

— Tobin Bell

Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without…

— John Stott

I never wanted to do a regular sitcom, because I'd be incredibly bored doing the same character week in, week out. But…

— Harry Shearer

The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not…

— David Farr

“There must be a limit to that kind of lifestyle, though," she says. "You can’t use that strength as a protective wall…

— Haruki Murakami

Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man…

— Orson Welles

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be…

— Bertrand Russell

It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute…

— Michael Josephson

“But I’m starting to think that most villains aren’t evil—they are just misunderstood.”

— Karina Halle

“She was sorceress on paper, a goddess in her mind but a mere peasant to everyone living in her present times.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I want to be doing smart, fun, complex characters like most actors want to do.

— Nicholas D'Agosto

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

— Sergio Aragones

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

— Bertrand Russell

When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.

— Alan Sepinwall

I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

— Ally Walker

It's parent's instinct on how they will mold their child's character, knowledge and talent.

— Anonymous

Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.

— Charles H. Townes

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

— Aelred of Rievaulx

Everyone remembers the bad guy long after they've seen the movie.

— Steven Berkoff

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

— Demosthenes

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

— Mila Kunis

True individuality and character never come to full flower without hard work.

— Senora Roy