Character Quotes · Page 378

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

— Amy Heckerling

“If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.”

— Dean Koontz

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

— Will Smith

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

“A character without motivation is an automaton. They’re just going through the motions.”

— Nathan Bransford

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

— Thomas Jefferson

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

— Sam Harris

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

— Matthew Fox

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because…

— Gabriel Iglesias

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed…

— Tennessee Williams

Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of…

— Oliver Tambo

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when…

— Barbara Park

In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and…

— Valerie Harper

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is…

— Juliette Binoche

I'm always open to not necessarily to do leading roles because I want to do roles that are the best, character role.…

— Josh Hutcherson

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in…

— Joseph Addison

I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I…

— Miles Teller

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no…

— Idris Elba

The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's…

— Max Lucado

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right…

— Anonymous

I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want…

— Keira Knightley

“I'm not like most characters, I guess. Everyone else in here seems to be happy having their lives already planned out for…

— Samantha van Leer

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like…

— Richard Avedon

I don't really want to make casual games or games with no sort of story backbone or character backbone.

— Cory Barlog

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

— Jena Malone

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

— Charlie Brooker

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

— George Bernard Shaw

“I don't play bad guys. I play people who make choices that are different from other people's.”

— Robert Deniro

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

— Jane Seymour

We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing…

— Marc E. Platt

“One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.”

— Allan Lokos

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

— Francis Bacon

If love is the plot, and I declare action. I will not sit behind the camera, waiting for you to get into…

— Sabs Kridrec

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.

— Marion LeRoy Burton

“Callahan dried his big meaty hands on his apron and cleared his throat with a sound like a bulldozer in pain.”

— Spider Robinson

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

— Timothy Olyphant

“Leaders build bridges; and seek common grounds to unite. Pygmies build walls; and invent excuses to divide.”

— Mamur Mustapha

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

— Colm Meaney