Character Quotes · Page 362

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

I like to think of performance-wear just like theater: we're making a character come to life each night.

— Doechii

“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.”

— Thomas H. Cook

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

— Jonny Bairstow

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing…

— Angela Robinson

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

— Debi Mazar

Everyone messes up -- that's a given! It is how they redeem themselves that truly shows their character and integrity.

— Jessica

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of…

— Aristotle

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor…

— Marcus Aurelius

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where…

— John Lasseter

I recruited Wendell Carter a little bit out of high school, so I am familiar with him when he was younger. He's…

— Billy Donovan

I like emotional horror. I don't like horror movies. I hate them. But, if you can make emotional horror movies, I'm in.…

— Kevin Williamson

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over…

— Susan Griffin

If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted…

— Tamsin Egerton

Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about…

— Neal Pollack

When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life,…

— Stella Adler

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought…

— Benjamin Franklin

I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don't believe in destiny. There are many things that…

— Gong Li

I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company,…

— Steven Chu

When I first started my character in my first match with Alicia Fox, I walked out with my hair in a ponytail,…

— Bayley

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and…

— Chris Pratt

I think that's why it's difficult for women when they watch TV and we see one version of a woman who is…

— Tatiana Maslany

Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a…

— Jerry Bridges

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

— Peter Ustinov

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

— Zuleikha Robinson

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

— Barry Watson

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel…

— Angel Olsen

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

— John Stamos

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

— Edward Young

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

— William Godwin

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his…

— Jean-Louis Barrault

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

— Toni Morrison

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or…

— Steve Buscemi

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

— Ric Flair

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

'Supernatural' was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.

— Julie McNiven

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

— Stephen Covey