Character Quotes

• When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

  

  Alyssa Sutherland
  • Fall
  • Judge
  • Compassion

• Every day is a blessing in WWE, and I keep reminding myself of that. That's my character.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Character

• I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • People
  • Character
  • Humanity

• The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Character
  • Choice
  • Content

• One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Exercise

• I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

  

  Lennie James
  • Time
  • Character

• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Freedom
  • Harmony
  • Liberation

• If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Faith
  • Lose

• I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

  

  Kevin McKidd
  • Character
  • Focus

• If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Opinion

• There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • Character

• When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Fate

• The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their souls those principles of personal purity, integrity, and character which foster the development of peace. Peace cannot be imposed. It must come from the lives and hearts of men. There is no other way.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Development
  • Price
  • Purity

• Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Up
  • Character
  • Preparation

• What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

  

  Plato
  • Character
  • Adapted
  • Festive

• Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift.

  

  Christian Camargo
  • Character
  • Gold

• If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.

  

  Miguel Indurain
  • Character
  • Aggressive

• You can't be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can't serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you can't step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Successful
  • Leader
  • Mentor

• It's always the last one because it's so present in your body. I liked Scream of the Banshee because it was a real challenge. I thought, "How am I going to pull off this character?" But, I also thought, "Oh, man, I'm going to go for it." He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.

  

  Brooke Foss Westcott
  • Character
  • Generations

• 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

• Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Great
  • Character

• The whole team learned a lot tonight, ... I was glad to we had that situation where it was a close game and we had to get it done. We had to get a stop. We showed a lot of character there.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Done
  • Game
  • Team

• Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

  

  James Thurber
  • Tears
  • Achievement
  • Laughter

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