Characters Quotes (3622 Quotes)

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Their No. 1 job is to enhance the character of each of the kids they get in their groups, and to empower them and make them unafraid to take risks. Each child has to matter. If you're coaching a team with 10 kids, the 10th child has to be as important as the first child.

I never saw 'Glitter,' but I liked her work in the other film. Because this character is interracial and struggles with all sorts of issues because of that, I thought she was perfect.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

Good writing requires a character with a voice. Usually, the first sound bite is not the whole story.

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

Coach (Weber) always talks about how good of a team we can be. Like, he gave the example of how we beat Georgetown at home, and Georgetown beats Duke. I know it's a home win for us. But I think we're up there with some of the best teams. If we keep winning on the road and showing some character and keeping playing solid basketball, I think we can make a run at it.

We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

Quaid, like Hancock, hails from Texas -- Houston itself, the city named for his character, as a matter of fact. You grow up in Texas, ... you learn Texas history before American history, and going to the Alamo as a kid or the San Jacinto battleground is a pilgrimage.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

It's a fundamental kind of character issue. You tell people where you are, and you let them decide whether they like your answer or not.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I thought we came of age a little bit. This was what we have to do to build this teams character. You have to have success in games like that, where you roll your sleeves up, where you battle till the end.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

O, that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

He's a consummate professional and a man of very high character. When you have a man around like that, that's going to do nothing but help everybody else who is around him. He's had a very positive impact on the Braves' organization and this team.

She's sweet and she's nice, she's just not Andie MacDowell. God forbid, you're not Andie MacDowell. You're just a person, ... I'm playing with that whole idea that the characters have these quirks about their personalities that we've been conditioned to believe equal wrongness.

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.

After long and careful consideration, we have elected not to match the offer sheet presented to us by Lamar Odom, ... In the final analysis, the decision was based on issues of character and other risks involved.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.

He's a real goofy personality. He's almost like a cartoon character.

Character counts. Our coaches must be exemplary role models, on the court and off.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

No one is going to think going into this movie that they are going to come out loving Frankenstein, and not in a cheap of cheesy way at all - he's really an angry, vicious guy - a beast. But when you think of the originals, they were scary melodramas. The characters were so deep. I always felt as badly for Frankenstein as I did for his victims because, like Lenny in Steinbeck's 'Mice and Men,' he's a man-child. I've always found that fascinating.

There's a certain appeal in a man who can be a human being. Gary's character is a bit of a romantic. The male audience will like it for the visceral, and women will respond to the safe and honorable, to the relationship with his kids.

It is what it is. He's trying to make a big family comedy. The characters, even if they're big and broad, don't know they're big and broad.

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

It says a lot about the character of this team. We're not often down, and we had an opportunity to be down tonight. And we think we responded well.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

We've played well in some adverse situations. I hope that trip was some character building for our team.

This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

Hockey moulds and reveals character. The root of it is really built into the character of the person.

I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

This is definitely the most demanding role I've ever had. It's almost like a job. I've found myself having to do research and really work at this character. It's much harder memorizing lines when they're all in a thick Irish accent.

We've never won the boys end of it, so that was a big focus for us. It's hard to sustain a good program when you don't have the proper facilities. So to see how good this team performed and the character of these kids, it's just wonderful.