Character Quotes

• I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Empathy
  • Bold
  • Rebel

• We got things done at the right time tonight. Every time we went down we kept our composure and got back into the game. We were able to get a lead and sustain it. We showed a lot of character being that those guys (Washington) already had their playoff shirts made up and wanted to wear them after the game. We didn't give them a chance to do that, now they have to do it somewhere else. We had an extra incentive to beat them and that gave us a great lift. We just did everything right tonight.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Character
  • Picture

• The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Long
  • Running

• Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Society
  • Courage

• I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Different
  • War
  • History

• You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Character
  • Personality

• The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

  

  Arthur Herzog
  • Time
  • Character

• Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Running
  • Story
  • Explore

• I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Guy
  • Red

• I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • God
  • Faith
  • Courage

• Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.

  

  Colman Domingo
  • Work
  • Character

• I relate to Michael Keaton's character in 'Birdman' so much, how he has that voice being so mean and then another boosting his confidence.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Character
  • Confidence

• I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.

  

  Jason Wiles
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.

  

  Alexander Koch
  • Up
  • American
  • King

• The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • People
  • Country
  • Gentleman

• Character is simply habit long continued.

  

  Plutarch
  • Long
  • Character
  • Habit

• A discipline, a region of the world of thought, should seek to know itself. Like an individual human being, it has received from its origins a stamp of character, a native mode of response to the situations confronting it. Right responses, 'responsibility', will require of the profession as of the individual an insight into the powers and defects of the tool which history has bequeathed to it.

  

  G. L. S. Shackle
  • Discipline
  • Profession
  • Irresponsibility

• I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

  

  Joe Madureira
  • Up
  • Character

• You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

  

  Janet Montgomery
  • Time
  • Why
  • Character

• If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

  

  Christopher Markus
  • Character
  • America
  • Political

• 'Dragon Age' needs to have big story moments. It is a game about character first, and the party is an absolutely central part of that. I want to keep pursuing interactivity with the world: taking crowds to the next level or having things catch fire because you indiscriminately cast a fireball into a wheat field.

  

  Marc Laidlaw
  • World
  • Age
  • Game

• The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

  

  Yamada Koun
  • Character
  • Purpose

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