Character Quotes · Page 428

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

— Marie Rutkoski

“Good character is the best insurance that pays good dividends than any insurance covers in the world. Preserve it!”

— Olawale Daniel

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

— Walt Disney

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

— Tim Roth

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and…

— William Westmoreland

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

— Lars von Trier

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

— Natalie Dormer

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

— Allen W. Wood

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said…

— Jo Brand

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people…

— Ann Beattie

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth…

— Cory Michael Smith

The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a…

— John Noble

The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural…

— Franz Boas

I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency…

— Joseph Fiennes

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't…

— George A. Romero

Orange Is the New Black' was a game changer for me; Laverne Cox's Sophia Burset was the first trans series regular character…

— Brian Michael Smith

Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich…

— Frank Spotnitz

10 Endradhukulla' is a thriller and the characters are all on the run. The film travels from South India traversing through the…

— Abhimanyu Singh

It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in…

— Ellen G. White

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does…

— Michael Josephson

Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note,…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting…

— Shane Douglas

I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to…

— Katie Aselton

What I want to see in teacher training is more talk about character education and getting teachers to really think about it.…

— Nicky Morgan

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

— Cal Thomas

“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

— Jazmine Sullivan

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

— Ban Ki-moon

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

— Randy Alcorn

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

— Rodrigo Santoro

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

— Kevin Kline

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

— Henry Fielding

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

— Dwyane Wade

Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.

— Allison Janney

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

— Megan Mullally

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

— Whitfield Diffie

The future of the country depends upon the character of the people living in the country

— Anonymous

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

— Judy Blume