Character Quotes · Page 382

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

— Britt Robertson

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of…

— Vijay Sethupathi

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

— Laura San Giacomo

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

— Madame de Stael

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!

— Megan Mullally

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

— Robert Browning

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not…

— Erica Jong

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me.…

— Powers Boothe

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic…

— Charles Dickens

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the…

— Bruce Lee

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor…

— Harrison Ford

I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want…

— Edward Norton

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

— Rupert Murdoch

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot…

— Samuel Johnson

“The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to…

— Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves.…

— Anonymous

That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts…

— Todd Farmer

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,…

— Anonymous

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than…

— Max Walker

I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's…

— Jeremy Renner

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

— Christopher Atkins

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is one of the truly great and underrated aspects of being successful. Passion is important too.

— Teddy Atlas

“The world is ours, whenever we choose to claim it, by virtue and grace of the fact that ours is the Morality…

— Ayn Rand

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

— Helena Bonham Carter

The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.

— Michael Shurtleff

“​Retaining Character is the Toughest Challenge for Humans when they Level Up.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

— Julian Fellowes

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

We create hate because we choose to be intolerant over acceptance.

— Megan Bailey

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.

— Toni Morrison

I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.

— Laura Dern

In your darkest night you will find your brightest Star. Tom Krause

— Tom Krause

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

— Robert Newton Peck

With me, it's clothing and makeup and hair and all that stuff that inform how the character moves and feels.

— Toks Olagundoye

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

— Barry Goldwater