Character Quotes · Page 414

If I get a good character, a suitable role, a good producer-director, only then will I do a film.

— Rajinikanth

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

— Billy Casper

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

— Mike Colter

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

— Karen Gillan

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters…

— Joel Kinnaman

I always think it's really nice to see characters band together and fight for what they all believe in.

— Danielle Rose Russell

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

— John Landis Mason

“One thing I’ve learned in my business is that you can hide dirt for a while, but at some point, it all…

— Nita Prose

If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds…

— Gayle Rankin

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you…

— Patricia Clarkson

I've been doing this 17 years but I can tell you I have more websites now than I have ever had devoted…

— Robert Patrick

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring…

— Jerome Flynn

Miranda is extremely tacky. I personally want to edit my videos well, but I have to keep Miranda's character in mind, so…

— Colleen Ballinger

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West,…

— Douglas Malloch

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the…

— Suzy Kassem

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be…

— Zach Woods

I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you…

— Frans de Waal

This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no…

— Desmond Tutu

Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,…

— Maria Popova

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we…

— Will Durant

None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade,…

— Vin Diesel

“We have come to see money as the key to pleasure, and pleasure as the key to happiness. This definition of happiness…

— Charles W. Colson

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain…

— Tinashe

“We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice, but the…

— Thomas Paine

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

— Anonymous

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

— Dominique McElligott

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

— Grant Morrison

You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

— Samuel Larsen

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

— Ninette de Valois

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Learners having character, conviction and commitment are on their way to leadership.

— Tasneem Hameed

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

— Aristotle

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

— Lela Loren

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am not playing a villain or a negative role in 'Turram Khan.' My character is that of a simple small-town girl.

— Nushrat Bharucha

There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.

— Jason Statham

“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.”

— Adam Gidwitz