Character Quotes · Page 384

Having self-respect is the most beautiful quality a woman can possess.

— Anonymous

“What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?”

— Brandon Sanderson

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

— Woody Allen

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

— David Brooks

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

— Ben Askren

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

— Robert Redford

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

— Malcolm Gets

If I have to change for a character, I need really logical reasons to look a certain way. Otherwise, I have finally…

— Parvathy

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to…

— Thomas Sowell

Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot,…

— Nathan Greno

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was…

— Joe Shuster

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which…

— Richard Armitage

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way,…

— Michael Ian Black

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange…

— Haruki Murakami

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character…

— William James

So it was this multi-perspective, multi-character book, and it went through all of these different manifestations. I'm not sure there was a…

— Danielle Dutton

When you really want a role and you really want a character, you become quite close to the script and the project,…

— Asa Butterfield

The purpose of this is not show that I can do it better, because I think Superman is perfect. The original creation…

— Stan Lee

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

Well, I don't know anything about television. I'd never done it before. Initially, it was quite daunting to take on so much…

— Diane Kruger

We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of…

— Nina Jacobson

“Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend…

— Daniel Friedmann

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you…

— Carl Sagan

I am always excited when the script or the character has something different to offer.

— Riya Sen

I try and balance positive and negative character traits given to me.

— Rao Ramesh

I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.

— Matt Servitto

“Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.”

— Glenn Beck

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

— Michael Scott

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

— Kevin Bacon

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz

I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.

— Alex Sharp

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

— Shweta Tripathi

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

— Laozi

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

— John G. Lake

Two things define us: our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.

— Terry Mark

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

— Holland Roden

I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.

— Katharine Ross

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

— Swara Bhaskar