Character Quotes · Page 371

Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

— James Ivory

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

— G. Willow Wilson

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

— Brady Corbet

“Remember, adversity does not necessarily build character in a man—but it does reveal it.”

— Rick Johnson

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

— Kunal Nayyar

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

— Marcel Proust

Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in…

— Madhur Mittal

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's…

— Anna Gunn

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a…

— Vera Farmiga

I think Bret Easton Ellis has said that he doesn't completely identify with his characters. And I think he has referred to…

— Tao Lin

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A…

— Christopher Hitchens

It surprises me every day that this (Eddie Haskell) character is still so popular. I don't completely understand it but it's nice.

— Ken Osmond

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to…

— Betty Smith

“Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are.…

— Mary McCormack

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything…

— Sergey Nechayev

I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core…

— Hilarie Burton

The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit…

— Rick Warren

You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do…

— Tom Cruise

I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part…

— George C. Marshall

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves…

— Paul Haggis

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it…

— Daniel Craig

The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.…

— Noam Chomsky

Some people may fool you for the moment, but be patient and see what happens. A person true colors will always show…

— Anonymous

Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

— Julian Barnes

Starting over isn't easy, but the character it builds, helps build you.

— Anonymous

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it.

— Zac Efron

It's not who we are that defines us, it's what we do to others that defines our personality, our image, our soul.

— Anonymous

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

— Aaron Sorkin

If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

— Sean Harris

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

“I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”

— Nita Prose

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

— Liza Campbell

My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy