Character famous quotes

With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Character #People #Different

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Character #Thinking #Way

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Strong #Character #Female

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Falling In Love #Character #Elements

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Strong #Character #Compassion

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
-- Anna Louise Strong

#Character #Practice #United States

I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.
-- Anna Maxwell Martin

#Jobs #Character #Play

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.
-- Anna Paquin

#Character #Thinking #Years

None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting.
-- Anna Paquin

#Character #Acting #Would Be

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
-- Anna Quindlen

#War #Character #Today

I must say...that more unmanly, brutal treatment of a little pony it was never my painful lot to witness; and by giving way to such passion, you injure your own character as much, nay more, than you injure your horse, and remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
-- Anna Sewell

#Horse #Character #Passion

You are playing a character obviously, and everything you are saying is filtered through that person.  It is not you that is saying it.  It is filtered through a character that doesn’t have your own set of values - so it is not really odd.  Inevitably we help each other with a lot of line-learning.  Plus there is a familiarity which is quite nice.  We have done TV together before.
-- Anna-Louise Plowman

#Nice #Character #Together

You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.
-- Anne Bernays

#Giving Up #Character #Writing

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
-- Anne Carson

#Character #Being In Love #Reality

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
-- Anne Enright

#Character

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
-- Anne Enright

#Writing #Character #Thinking

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
-- Anne Enright

#Character #Knowing #Rooms

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
-- Anne Frank

#Lying #Character #Greatness

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
-- Anne Frank

#Relationship #Children #Character

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?
-- Anne Frank

#Character #Circles #Long

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
-- Anne Frank

#Lying #Character #Greatness

Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Art #Character #Mean

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Believe #Character #People

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Character #Needs #Actors

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
-- Anne Lamott

#Witty #Character #Thinking

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
-- Anne Lamott

#New Relationship #Character #Miracle

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
-- Anne Lamott

#Character #Worry #Plot

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
-- Anne Lamott

#Prayer #Character #Years

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.
-- Anne Lamott

#Writing #Character #Needs

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
-- Anne Parillaud

#Character #Brain #Directors

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.
-- Anne Rice

#Character #Principles #Catharsis

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.
-- Anne Rice

#Writing #Character #Thinking

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
-- Anne Rice

#Moving #Character #Inspire

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
-- Anne Rice

#Jesus #Character #Son

It is ultimately character that underwrites art.
-- Anne Truitt

#Art #Character

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.
-- Anne Truitt

#Forgiveness #Kindness #Character

I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
-- Anne Tyler

#Real #Character #Literature

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
-- Anne Tyler

#Character #Blood #Literature

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
-- Anne Tyler

#Character #Reflection #Opportunity

It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, o­ne of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.
-- Annie Besant

#Teacher #Character #Islam

Thought creates character.
-- Annie Besant

#Character #Power Of Thought

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
-- Annie Proulx

#Character #Writing #Steps

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.
-- Ansel Elgort

#Basketball #Character #Thinking

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
-- Anson Jones

#Character #Work Out #Maps

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Care #Clear

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Southern

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Arbitrary #Good And Bad

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.
-- Anson Mount

#Character #Love Is #Long

The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

#Character #Men #Thinking

The way you make an omelet reveals your character.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Character #Cooking #Way

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Character #Skills #Taught

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.
-- Anthony Browne

#Lonely #Character #Childhood

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Writing #Character #Facts

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Dad #Father #Character

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Character #Odd #Fame

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.
-- Anthony LaPaglia

#Character #Thinking #People

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.
-- Anthony Michael Hall

#Character #Thinking #Development

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
-- Anthony Michael Hall

#Character #Kids #Men

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.
-- Anthony Minghella

#Heart #Character #Careers

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
-- Anthony of Padua

#Prayer #Character #Grace

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.
-- Anthony the Great

#Christian #Passion #Character

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
-- Anthony Trollope

#Hurt #Character #Thinking

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Passion #Character #Ideas

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.
-- Antoine Rivarol

#Daughter #Mother #Character

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
-- Anton Chekhov

#Character #Psychology #Essentials

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.
-- Anton Corbijn

#Character #Ideas #People

You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers of selection and wind up being a pretty poor judge of character and quality. If anything is used too freely it loses its true meaning. Therefore, the Satanist believes you should love strongly and completely those who deserve your love, but never turn the other cheek to your enemy!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Believe #Character #Thinking

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Jobs #Character #Thinking

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Character #Play #Lucky

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
-- Anton Yelchin

#Character #Thinking #Hands

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?
-- Anton Yelchin

#Character #Play #Want

For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Suicide #Character #Men

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
-- Antonin Scalia

#Teaching #Character #Years

If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Writing #Character #Thinking

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Character #Play #Persons

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Halloween #Character #People

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Character #Gay #Thinking

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.
-- Antonio Banderas

#Beautiful #Character #Kids

Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.
-- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

#Character #People #Catholic

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
-- Antonio Tabucchi

#Character #Mean #Creating

If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will recur, either as themselves or as new, slightly altered manifestations, and their same issues will reappear. It's a matter of the subject and emotional investment and my own obsessive thinking about various issues It's an unconscious process. To say that a single story is not done isn't quite true. A story can be finished and judged successful or not by somebody else, but if the issue is not done for me, I can count on its reappearance.
-- Antonya Nelson

#Book #Character #Successful

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.
-- Antonya Nelson

#Taken #Character #Landscape

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.
-- Anuj

#Lying #Heart #Character

A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.
-- Anuj

#Wise #Character #Men

Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position.
-- Anuj

#Heart #Character #Balance

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.
-- Anuj

#Real #Character #Persons

Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
-- Anuj

#Dream #Believe #Character

The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.
-- Anuj

#Character #People #Support

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.
-- Anuj

#Character #Judging #Answers

The quality of a person’s life is the sum total of the character, good or not so good, of the people whom he has inspired and motivated, directly and indirectly, with his living standard and lifestyle.
-- Anuj

#Character #People #Quality

A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.
-- Anuj

#Character #Degrees #Likes

A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them.
-- Anuj

#Character #Leader #Deeds

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Character #Games #Personality

When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.
-- Apolo Ohno

#Team #Character #Sleep

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
-- April Parker Jones

#Creativity #Character #Able

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
-- Apuleius

#Character #Carpe Diem #Rich

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Character #Frustration #Self

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.
-- Archibald Rutledge

#Sports #Character #Men

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.
-- Archibald Rutledge

#Spiritual #Heart #Character

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.
-- Archie Panjabi

#Character #Joy #Postman