Character Quotes
Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.
People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.
I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.
The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
Johnny Depp is somebody I really love working with because he doesn't care how he looks. He wants to become weird characters and I like that.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.
"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."
When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.
I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the American character.
It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character.
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.
I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.
I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.
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.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.