Characters Quotes (3622 Quotes)

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.

Money and mansions are not the only wealth. Hoard the wealth of the Spirit. Character is wealth good conduct is wealth and spiritual wisdom is wealth.

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.

We chatted about different movies we loved, the aspects of characters,

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

Irv was a character. I thoroughly enjoyed him. He was great and made me wonder what the SOB sounded like 50 years ago.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series to an extent. Neither of them are really a template. I've never loved the comics and I didn't watch the television series, but I loved the character very much.

We were very focused tonight. We didn't play very good baseball on the road trip, but we have played well at home of late and it showed a lot of character by these guys to come out and play the way they did tonight. It was a big win for us.

I heard about one very active online game in which two avatars highly customizable drawings or photos of people, animals, cartoon characters, or inanimate objects that online users employ as identification in communicating with their peers got married in the game. Later, I found out that the two people behind the avatars really did get married. And have children.

The voice he created for character was so perfect. The character was quite scary and the voice was quite scary at times.

The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.

That was done because of a recognition that education takes a majority of our budget and because education influences other things like neighborhood character.

Basically, we had a two-hour meeting where we both came to the same exact solution to how to do the show, which was it had to have a lot of characters, the characters had to be really mysterious and the island itself had to be even more mysterious than they were.

More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.

When I shot these scenes, my character was a lesbian. I thought it was intriguing. You'll notice places where the lesbianism has been mercilessly excised.

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs, thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

It's a question of opening it up, and it's a question of closing it down, ... You know, opening it up in the sense of We need a giant, epic story that is not the kind of thing these people usually get involved in in a TV series, which is more mundane. You need a reason for this to be a movie. The closing comes in making sure that it is accessible to everybody that you explain everybody as much as you need to, that you explain the world as much as you need to, that you begin and you end, that you have an arc for the character, as well as a plot that has a question and then an answer.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

The town has some decisions to make, because it's going to change the character of this community. Greenwich is going to have decisions to make about what kind of community it wants to be, and that would have to include providing housing for the citizens of Greenwich.

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

If you're sitting in that house, you really believe that those animated characters are real.

I think,it was a smart idea to shoot it all at once, because the characters will be much more complete and convincing. We were living as those characters for a year and a half.

We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.

The film is driven by coincidence and preconception, ... Each character, whether they be rich, poor, black, white, Mexican or Iraqi, suffers these preconceptions about the other as a manifestation of personal frustration. You see the characters' motivation and see that behind the belligerent cop is a man in pain, behind the frustrated housewife is a woman who feels let down. Racism is just one part of the much bigger puzzle that the film offers.

Never has there been a better time or place in history to have access to such a range of character and variety,

I love the idea that a whole new cast of characters, a whole new audience is going to see what we think is a very important and wonderful show.

My school was co-educational and heavily committed to progressive educational ideas. It played an important role in shaping my character.

The resilience of this team, the character we showed in coming back and beating Finland yesterday, we're all proud of ourselves in the fact that we're bringing the U.S. home a medal, It was great for us to start off strong, and I think we scored like two minutes, 30 seconds into the game, a good testament to the team that we were really refocusing and really went hard right from the beginning.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Gabriel and I were always getting the giggles, but he was really scary when he was in character, ... drunk and screaming and shouting at me. At one point, he held a gun to my head and I could feel my heart racing. Then, afterwards, he'd just be fun Gabriel again, having a laugh.

I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.

Too much time has passed for me to choose a favorite character. I would have to review the series and then I could very quickly tell you my favorite.

I steered clear of all those political intrigues, particularly when you're having to play a character. So I have to shut my eyes and ears to that.

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.