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There are great characters on television. -- Penelope Ann Miller
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
My goal has been to be a great character actor. -- Nolan Gerard Funk
Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character. -- John Thaw
Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational. -- Ron Perlman
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. -- Brian Tracy
If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy. -- Andy Serkis
I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. -- Harry Hamlin
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people. -- Moira Kelly
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere. -- Ridley Scott
I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great. -- John Stamos
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age. -- J. Michael Straczynski
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for. -- Jill Scott
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable singing voice. I think I have a great character voice. -- Katie Finneran
I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in. -- Katherine Heigl
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. -- Abigail Adams
Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand-some better, some worse than others-but what's more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward. -- Christine Ha
Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them. -- Justin Bartha
My mother and I will continue on some level that I havent determined yet. I think my mothers a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. -- James Ellroy
I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character. -- Blair Underwood
Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while. -- Grenville Kleiser
Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing. -- Brad Falchuk
I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page. -- Keri Russell
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. -- Daya Kudari
Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character. -- J. Robbins
I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character. -- Elijah Wood
The Sun had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media. -- Rebecca
The Sun' had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media. -- Rebekah Brooks
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters. -- John Lasseter
Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward. -- Dallas Willard
I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece. -- Laurie Holden
Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby. -- Jim Carrey
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other. -- Tobsha Learner
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. -- Matt Lauria
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. -- Richard Cecil
I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it. -- Corin Nemec
I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing. -- Keeley Hawes
Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me! -- Kofi Siriboe
If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the sunset and leave you to pick up the trash. -- Wendi Kelly
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy. -- Dominic Chianese
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Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day. -- Will Rogers
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that. -- Matthew McConaughey
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters. -- Barry Eisler
I gotta say, Pluto is such a great character, and if I ever got to work with him, I'd be very happy. The scene where he gets caught in fly paper, he's such a great dog! -- Bob Peterson
I played a little bit of 'City of Heroes' - they have a really great character generation system. I was pretty impressed with that. I played 'World of Warcraft' with my kids. That's a lot of fun. -- Jim Lee
Inspector Rebus is a great character, so when the opportunity came up to revive the role for 'BBC Children in Need,' and really have a bit of fun with it, I was happy to take part. -- Ken Stott
Clearly, Simon Baz brings such a different viewpoint to 'Green Lantern.' The very nature of the corps concept of overcoming fear, I felt Simon was a great character to explore, while getting a different viewpoint on things. -- Geoff Johns
Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them. -- Josh Stewart
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude. -- Jean-Paul Marat
It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars. -- Elena Satine
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career. -- James Ellroy
In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that. -- Robert Greenblatt
If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it. -- Andre Holland
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters. -- Candace Camp
[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything. -- Milo Ventimiglia
I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun. I had a good time. And I love being in a movie that people actually go see. But it's about things getting blown up. It's not about great character development. -- Bonnie Bedelia
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental. -- Herbie Hancock
Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don't love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work. -- Chad Stahelski
Hope and Crosby made seven 'Road' movies, starting in 1940 with 'Road to Singapore.' The movies were always about Crosby and Hope fleeing America and finding Dorothy Lamour in some exotic location. Bob's character was cocky and cowardly; Bing's character was smooth and unruffled. They were great characters - lousy, lovable guys. -- Frank Oz
I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy. -- A. J. Cook
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You do Batman right, and he's going to be popular. He's a great character. I was once asked by somebody if writing 'Batman' was like holding a Ming vase or something. And I said, 'No, it's like holding a big-ass diamond that you can't break. You can throw him against the ceiling, against the floor, anywhere, and you just can't break Batman.' -- Frank Miller
Great character is forged through hardships. -- Eiji Yoshikawa
The great hope of society is in individual character. -- William Ellery Channing
It's great playing a mature character. It adds something. -- Phyllis Logan
To me, characters are at the heart of great literature. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. -- Grenville Kleiser
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. -- Ben Kingsley
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. -- Claire Tomalin
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -- Tryon Edwards
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything. -- Bob Brown
My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character. -- Olivia Williams
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillips Brooks
There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me. -- Ron Perlman
Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself. -- John Leguizamo
Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great. -- Ronald Reagan
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. -- Barbara Hershey
The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge. -- Oswald Chambers
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The great hope of society is in individual character -- William Ellery Channing
Persistence is the great measure of individual human character. -- Brian Tracy
I take great responsibility in any character that I play. -- Jessica Chastain
The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty. -- Charles A. Beard
My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. -- Tracey Ullman
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. -- Christopher Hitchens
What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human. -- Nicole Holofcener
Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time -- David Bradley
Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share. -- Avery Johnson
Great, now I've turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said. -- Ilona Andrews
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are. -- Sunday Adelaja
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. -- Woodrow Wilson
There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character. -- Harald Zwart
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character. -- Lewis Tappan
Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character. -- Tommy Lasorda
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique. -- Paul Coffey
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. -- Frederick William Faber
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.... -- Alfred Armand Montapert
I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great. -- Brian Greene
Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart. -- J. C. Ryle
Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great. -- America Ferrera
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies. -- William A. Adams
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness. -- William Hazlitt
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron. -- Samuel Smiles
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. -- Joshua Ferris
Supernatural' was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes. -- Julie McNiven
Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes. -- Julie McNiven
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. -- Albert Einstein
Style is a display of character. It's also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it. -- Trey Songz
One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based. -- Mitchell Hurwitz

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