Quotes of: Characters Keyword

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Oliver Twist

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

The Prize

I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.

The Painted Veil

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Ulysses

Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and your character. This is the same for everyone.

Unknown

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

Vanity Fair

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character Which makes the big decisions.

A Woman's High Calling

The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.

Willowtree A Bruce DelReno Mystery

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

The Wednesday Wars

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story g...

Donald E. Westlake

I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

Gil Gerard

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

Julia Glass

I love Vince McMahon. He came up with the Kurt Angle character. He ran with it, and then I was able to run with it. I thank him for the opportunity he gave me. Vince McMahon was one of my best friends, period.

Kurt Angle

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Liberty Ross

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Neil LaBute

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Paulo Coelho

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

Richard Briers

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

Sophie Kinsella

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature