Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to. — Dennis Franz
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing… — Haley Joel Osment
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more… — Heather Matarazzo
The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm… — Heather Matarazzo
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in… — Randy Harrison
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. — Randy Harrison
I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds… — Dennis Farina
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors. — Dennis Farina
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music. — Chris Cornell
I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm… — Amanda Burton
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time… — Tadao Ando
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as… — Wallace Stegner
We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a… — Wallace Stegner
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but… — Olive Schreiner
The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character. — Jean-Louis Barrault
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character. — Harry S. Truman
It is likely that human beings will find fulfillment and will be rewarded for the same qualities that they have been rewarded for for 5,000… — Fareed Zakaria
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the… — Helen Fielding
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his… — Iain Pears
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught… — Maria Jeritza
My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters. — Evanna Lynch
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as… — V. S. Pritchett
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play… — Edward Hoagland

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