Character Quotes · Page 394

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

— Nelson Mandela

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person…

— Cornelia Funke

As a mature character artist I thoroughly enjoyed working with the enthusiastic, childlike Salman Khan.

— Vinod Khanna

A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of…

— Scott Eastwood

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

— Imelda Staunton

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

“Surely intelligence wasn't enough; moral clarity was needed as well.”

— Paul Kalanithi

It's better if you just base your character exactly how you see it and not base it on anyone else.

— Emily Osment

...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no…

— Bertrand Russell

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

When I key into the character of Five, I'm generally drawing upon a mental state - not so much thinking about the…

— Aidan Gallagher

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room…

— Anne Enright

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Working on location is ideal because you enter the character and the story. Shooting at a studio near home, there's a certain…

— Sondra Locke

It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on…

— Donald E. Westlake

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then…

— Sidney Sheldon

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps…

— J. D. Vance

“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They…

— Lev Shestov

There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the…

— Albert Pike

Venom' is a standalone character who has so much attitude, menace and ferocity. He's also really funny in the comics and in…

— Ruben Fleischer

Obviously making Peter Parker suddenly bisexual or gay wouldn't really make logical or dramatic sense. It was a hypothetical kind of question…

— Andrew Garfield

I remember calling and asking, because I had a few lines that were like, "How could the character have done this?" and…

— Alden Ehrenreich

“the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and…

— John William Polidori

My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at…

— Russell T Davies

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

— Kate Winslet

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

— Emma Kenney

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.”

— Ann Whitman

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

— William Hazlitt

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

— John Wimber

“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”

— John Geddes

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

— Sidney Mohede

A story isn't interesting unless a character has real challenges to deal with.

— Alexis Bledel

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special…

— Tillie Olsen

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

— Norm MacDonald

I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life.

— Nikitin Dheer

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

— Lore Segal

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

— Confucius