Characters Quotes (3622 Quotes)

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

It would be my hope that we could keep this group intact, which is difficult to do these days. I think we have guys with great character, work ethic, attitude all the things that you'd want.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

If you look at the characters that were predominantly on their schedule, with 'The West Wing,' 'Frasier' and 'Seinfeld,' they were detached, elitist and urban, ... every network is trying to reach as broad an audience as possible.

I can't put my finger on what we need or how many players we need -- I think we have the players here to get it done. There needs to an attitude thing that needs to be adjusted somewhat. But I love the character of this team. And I'll never turn away from that.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

I'm just so proud of us, the chemistry that we have. To beat Duke, they're a great team. And that just shows a lot about our team, and what kind of character we have. It feels good, but now it's over. Now it's another task at hand.

But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

I appreciate his attitude about this. It was the most difficult thing I've had to do with this organization. Otis is a quality person and has a lot of integrity and character. It's just a business situation. We have to manage our business on the income and expense side.

It's locally led so the national teams are responding to local input. Style does give those things character, but above and beyond, that is creating livable communities. We want to create urban centers that curb urban sprawl.

The Music Man' is a big undertaking. It's a huge role (for Dan Hill). It's on his back. The character has developed -- he's just doing a terrific job for us.

I'm just speechless right now. We've been down by a run four or five times this year, and the kids just refused to lose. These kids showed a lot of heart and character, and that's what it's about.

He's a known character. We designed it so that when you see Caesar, it's through other people's eyes, it's how the people around him see him. Because, to a degree, a character like Caesar is always unknowable.

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

We showed a lot of character, but it's very disappointing to come all the way back like that and still lose. That's a game we should have won. I will say that there's a lot of teams who might have packed it in when they were down by four goals, but we didn't.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Their sexual knowledge, attitudes, behaviors are all shaped in part by the characters in stories that television conveys.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

To say that it lay in mere character, or was a psychological interest, would be a great mistake, for he was dramatic to the tips of his fingers.

We had a nice little streak, but it's not that we lost it, it's the way we lost it. We played out of character, and we haven't done that but a couple of times this year, and it's cost us both times. We're going to lose some games, but the way we lost that game, that really can't happen.

Doc May is a character, ... He can look at you and tell you what's wrong with you. And if he needs to spend an hour with you, he will. He has helped me tremendously.

I think that Michael Jackson needs to be judged on the content of his character, not on the bleached mocha latte light color of his skin.

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

I tread on the m che' with my feet and I sometimes use my teeth, and of course my hands are always working. I am also using my mind when I work. I sometimes have to talk with the material so I can figure out the character of what I'm making.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

This draft class has been really helpful, not just the physical talent, but also the character of these rookies. And I don't know how they managed to sign these free agents. We didn't have much room under the cap, but they made things happen.

People in Terre Haute shouldn't look down on him quite so much as this cold, crass guy who wrote dirty novels all his life. Underneath, the impulse for beauty, for joy, for pleasure is in all of his characters.

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.

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.

I'm not a very good player, to be honest. I've tried to play the game and especially to get familiar with the characters better. I mean, it's really an amazing game, having just a limited sort of knowledge of it that I have.

My intention with 'Bobby' is not to make a political picture, although the 1968 California primary figures prominently in the story. The film is about being at critical mass -- critical mass in relationships or between race, and the hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time. The entire country was experiencing critical mass. Culturally, we all unraveled after that tragic night on June 5. And now, 37 years later, our country has reached critical mass once again.

What's the use of showing films that will end up at multiplexes in six months, or everybody's going to get to see in some way or another There's so much gay media now and so much access. You can find gay characters on TV with ease. They're all over the place, but they're the same character.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

It's kind of like a crazy comedy. And funny from the standpoint that there are so many different characters, like the nosy neighbors, they just come in and take over. And some of their lines are just so funny.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.

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.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

What a character game gives you is it makes it much easier for you to brand (your console). We don't have to have it to be successful. But we'd like to have it.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.