Character Quotes · Page 380

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

— Kevin Bacon

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

— Tim Burton

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is…

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear…

— Joseph Hall

I would rather be known in life as a honest sinner than as a lying hypocrite.

— Anonymous

Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

— Martin Luther

I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.

— Michael Connelly

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well…

— Donald Ray Pollock

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are…

— Israelmore Ayivor

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From…

— Ezra Taft Benson

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you…

— Sissy Spacek

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based…

— William Jackson

They say so much about who a person is, who a character is. And usually in the past in sketch stuff, I…

— Cole Escola

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and…

— Joseph Addison

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time,…

— Adam Driver

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters…

— Antoine Fuqua

So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall…

— Emily Deschanel

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

— Aristotle

Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be…

— Marc Andreessen

There simply aren't any grand moments in life, and we surely don't live in those moments. No, we live in the utterly…

— Paul David Tripp

Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to…

— Jack Hodgins

Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to…

— Henry Giroux

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

— Wilkie Collins

I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.

— Genesis Rodriguez

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

— Greg Bryk

I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career.

— Selma Blair

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

— Stephanie Leonidas

When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular 'Celtic Warrior' character.

— Sheamus

You get films like 'Baahubali' once in your life. And Amrendra Bahubali is a character that I can never forget.

— Prabhas

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

If your character is written well and is meaty enough, even two scenes has the potential to stand out.

— Varun Sharma

A man's originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality of his life.

— Anuj Somany

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

— Leonardo da Vinci