Character Quotes · Page 454

We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.

— Rose Namajunas

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something…

— Rutger Hauer

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

— Peter Shaffer

“Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…

— Virginia Woolf

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

— Benjamin Harrison

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

— Honore de Balzac

There Is No Enemy Outside Your Soul.. It's Only An Image Of What You Give To Them To Think About You. The…

— Pacifiersucker

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

You've only got so much plot, character and psychological capital. One day it will be gone and you don't know when that…

— Jesse Armstrong

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look…

— Amanda Burton

Mukesh Bhatt's wife had seen my performance in 'Geet,' and that is when she had decided to launch me in Bollywood. So,…

— Gurmeet Choudhary

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of…

— Anonymous

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human…

— Francis George

“But virtue, as it never will be moved, Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a…

— William Shakespeare

“One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually…

— Mike Flanagan

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously…

— Michelle Dockery

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep…

— Kate Christensen

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing…

— Carlos Castaneda

Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence,…

— Parley P. Pratt

I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the…

— Mel Brooks

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

— Lionel Trilling

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

— Vittorio De Sica

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Our heart should always be a reflection of who we are as people.

— Ayjee Grogan

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

— Doug Liman

You know what I mean, I'm not Tom Cruise. I can act as long as the character happens to look and sound…

— John Bishop

It was a tricky part to play, because Herriot is both a fictional character and a real person.

— Christopher Timothy

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

— Edie Falco

My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

— Ernest Cline

As a storyteller, when you see somebody who is the character you envisioned, you feel this energy in the room.

— John Singleton

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

— Plutarch

“orient your entire brand toward storytelling by defining and defending a powerful moral of your story in every communication.”

— Jonah Sachs

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

— Nicole Byer

I'm actually very moral and nurturing, but I'm also adventurous. I am challenging.

— Juliette Lewis