Character Quotes

• The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

  

  Dan Fante
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Childhood

• 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

• I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

  

  Bono U2
  • Character
  • Times
  • Recognize

• I've done many body scans. Every time your character fights in a different look, they'll rescan you. Because my character has taken so long to get a super suit, every time Mon-El fights, he's in something different.

  

  Chris Wood
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• There's no one else like Hodor on 'Game of Thrones.' There's no other character with that warmth, humanity, and a little bit of comic relief.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Character
  • Game
  • Humanity

• I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

  

  Peter M. Brant
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Anytime you join a show that's been successful, there's a certain responsibility. And a lot of anxiety that, you know, you're bringing the character to life, respecting the show and doing your part. So that you are not the weak link in the chain.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Anxiety

• I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Up
  • Long
  • Why

• When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

  

  Steven Strogatz
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Resistances

• In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.

  

  John Singleton
  • Character
  • Hood

• To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Good
  • Children
  • Mother

• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  

  John Wooden
  • Character

• Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

  

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • Character
  • Brown

• I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.

  

  Scott Frank
  • Interesting
  • Actors
  • Certain

• I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

  

  Kevin James
  • Writing
  • Black
  • Space

• In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Character

• It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • Great
  • Character

• They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

  

  Curtis Joseph
  • Character
  • Childhood

• Kids search for what's relevant, what connects with their life... now. They know bad things happen like Hurricane Katrina. Through character driven stories, they explore what it's like to survive, thrive, and become more themselves.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Character

• The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • English
  • Kitchen
  • Goddess

• As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Eye

• I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Character

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