Character Quotes · Page 359

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

— Salim Kumar

“Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.”

— Dee Henderson

“No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.”

— David D. Burns

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

— Anson Mount

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

— Taika Waititi

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

— Laura Carmichael

I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what…

— Radhika Madan

Doing acts of kindness is not the same as being kind. An act of kindness is finite. Being kind is an internal…

— B D Schiers

“[On playing a bad guy in Harry Potter's film]: I think it's more fun, there are a lot of goodies in the…

— Tom Felton

“All the children who are held and loved...will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need…

— Meng Zi

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact…

— Russell Hoban

Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On the last day of every character I've ever played, I lay the clothes out on the floor with the shoes and…

— Aden Young

I've done a lot of work in my life and have begun to let go of that need to be perfect, and…

— Sarah Drew

I love wearing the exact same thing all the time because I think it makes you like a cartoon character. They always…

— Kesha

I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to…

— Steve Carr

Darth Maul dies and it's okay. And maybe he'll be picked up later and another actor will play him and that's okay.…

— Samuel Witwer

I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's…

— Tom Hiddleston

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.…

— Stephen Covey

When I was training before I was even signed, I was listening to the Damian Marley CD 'Welcome to Jamrock,' and I…

— Kofi Kingston

I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write…

— Richard Greenberg

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their…

— Dennis Quaid

“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who…

— Plato

[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual…

— Jeff Schaffer

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

— Sarah Paulson

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all…

— Martin Luther

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

— John Green

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

— Anonymous

I'll try to find a character or a story that is different from those I've done before.

— Shin Min-a

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

— Alan Rickman

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

— LeCrae

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”

— Aristotle

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”

— Thomas M. Disch

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

— Charles Hodge

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

— Joshua Emmet

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

— Mary Connealy