Character Quotes

• When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it is a good investment, be skeptical and stay open to the option of running as far as you can in the opposite direction. We have all seen the biggest names on Wall Street along with the largest sovereign wealth funds on the planet make the dumbest investments ever made. Do your due diligence; ask the right questions, and most important, check out the character of the people involved unless you want to end up being prey to another master of the universe à la Bernie Madoff.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Running
  • Universe
  • Sovereign

• If you judge the character, you cant play it.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Character
  • Play
  • Judge

• The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Democratic
  • Invite
  • Pedestrian

• The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'

  

  Claire Messud
  • Character
  • Question
  • Friend

• I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Talking

• Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Learning

• I began my life as a character in my father's films.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Life
  • Films
  • Fathers

• The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Light

• Genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Genius
  • Imperfect
  • Superhuman

• I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six novels are continuous and contain the same set of characters. They are based on Manning's experiences in Eastern Europe and Egypt during the Second World War. Each novel is a wonderful picture of the peculiar British expatriate culture and what was happening during the war. She's one of those brilliant women who write very well about domestic relationships. All the books are slim, and it's easy to gallop through them.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Wonder

• I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Character

• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Together
  • Forgotten

• Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you...

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Piece

• I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Character
  • Taken

• What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Reading
  • Made
  • Scripts

• 'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Responsibility
  • Star
  • Challenge

• I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Character
  • Violence

• The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Personality
  • Flaws
  • Masonic

• The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Character
  • Wisdom

• I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

  

  Jay Ellis
  • Character
  • Girl

• You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.

  

  Richard Roxburgh
  • Honestly
  • Relate
  • Frankenstein

• All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.

  

  Keiichi Sigsawa
  • People
  • Character
  • Fantasy

• I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple personalities. But I don't write to make an argument on behalf of any of the characters, or to prove anything about a character. I think that's important that I be serving the story first and not my own point of view.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Personality

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