Character Quotes · Page 411

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a…

— Billy Crudup

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

— Minka Kelly

“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold…

— Jeff Wheeler

You cannot dream yourself into a character, you must hammer and forge yourself once...

— Pooja

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great…

— Anonymous

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

— Washington Irving

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

— Georges Danton

In the Marvel world, some characters have similar powers. Initially some people might bump up against it, but if they really looked…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character…

— Ken Watanabe

I didn't think I grafted the competitive and strong-willed versions of myself from 'Korea's Next Top Model' to Sae-byeok's character. But thinking…

— HoYeon Jung

[M]ay you be more advanced in the school of solid virtue, which is practiced in an excellent way in the midst of…

— Vincent de Paul

I'm never lonely when I'm writing, because you live with the characters that are so alive in your mind. And you really…

— Julie Andrews

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly…

— Lewis Carroll

A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best…

— Clare Eames

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight…

— Christian Louboutin

When I was trying to achieve my goal, I started training. I became a character, and everyone was expecting me to become…

— Mustafa Ali

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against…

— Jesmyn Ward

Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I…

— Gore Vidal

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought…

— Cate Blanchett

I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that…

— Rose Leslie

“Ethics involves the question of authority. The Christian lives under the sovereignty of God, who alone may claim lordship over us. Christian…

— R.C. Sproul

You just can never count on a formula, on a movie that you think is going to be a big hit, and…

— Susan Sarandon

I was the singing voice of a cartoon character. I did dog food commercials. I did a lot of commercials, actually, and…

— Cheryl Ladd

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

— Milla Jovovich

When you're a VJ, you can say whatever you want, dress whatever way you want to. You play your own character.

— Rhea Chakraborty

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

— Jeff Kinney

When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into…

— Marion Cotillard

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

— Fritz Kreisler

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

— Bryan Greenberg

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

— William James

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test…

— Cressida Cowell

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

— Susan Howe

In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

— Fiona Gubelmann

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

— Jonathan Shapiro

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

— Confucius

“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”

— Jeffrey Archer

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of…

— Jane Goldman

“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.”

— Bryant McGill