Character Quotes

• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Stand

• I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married Christopher, and everyone loved Adriana. I knew what it was like to join a very beloved, secretive show and following a very iconic character.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Loved

• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Great
  • Real
  • Book

• I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Character
  • Free

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

  

  Aristotle
  • Purpose
  • Better
  • Virtue

• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • America
  • Guy
  • Driving

• The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Character
  • Ideas

• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Age
  • Free

• I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Worry
  • Waiting

• My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • Up
  • World
  • Age

• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Think
  • Window

• I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

  

  James Boswell
  • May
  • Character
  • Practice

• An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Character
  • Think
  • Acting

• There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Character
  • Emotional

• When I create a story, I can make it however funny, sad, or happy I want it to be. And when I read, I feel like I'm in the story, and I get to experience it. It feels like I'm watching someone else do something, but I'm doing the thing that the character is doing as well.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Funny

• I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

  

  Jonathan Bennett
  • Real
  • She
  • Girl

• People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.

  

  Jared Harris
  • People
  • Evil
  • Sister

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Model

• Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Unhappy
  • Petty

• The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wisdom
  • Wise
  • Silence

• As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow Up

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