Top 1200 Best Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.

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

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

Usually viewers are attached to a character or that character's personality. But, in my case, I have been exceptionally lucky as I have been accepted as Shweta.

People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

I don't want to be a nobody in a film. It's okay if it is not a lead character, but it should be a central character and it should make an impact.

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it.

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.

Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

That's what we do in the WWE: we tell stories; we're characters. We go into the ring, and my character is telling a story in the ring against another character.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.