Characters Quotes

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

Suffering, Scars, Souls

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Friends, Cannot

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Crisis, Two, Word

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

Women, Men, Married

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

Character, Writing, Living

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler

Ignorance, Pride, Arrogance

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
Angelina Jolie

Happy, Live, Through

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Plato

Men, Human, Grow

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Dr. Seuss

End, Try, Start

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney

Nature, Fantasy, Cartoon

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
Walt Disney

Try, Full, Build

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney

Through, Far, Common

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'
Demetri Martin

Alone, Help, Busy

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Strong, Person

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.
Clint Eastwood

Reality, Liked, Grounded

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
Clint Eastwood

Special, Rather, Story

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James

Hell, Wrong, Ourselves

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie

Time, Hard, Person

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Idiot, Around

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Richard Bach

Real, Understand, Sometimes

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Ambrose Bierce

Put, Prove, Trial

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides

Moment, Wealth, Gold

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli

Change, Opinions, Alter

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Harvey Fierstein

Change, Sex, Thought

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran Lebowitz

Hope, Around, Moral

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Sex, Human, Neither

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
David Walliams

Alone, Happy, Creativity

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
E. M. Forster

Hold, Changed, Vanity

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul

Change, Strong, Situation

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.
David O. Russell

Love, Real, Working

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