Humorous Character Quotes

I like Bret Easton Ellis' sense of humor. I feel like mine is sometimes similar to his. And how his characters sometimes seem really confused in a humorous manner. I like that. And I have that sometimes in my characters. ~ Tao Lin

His largeness lorded over his chair like a giant unripened pumpkin rolling onto an egg cup. ~ Jack Flanagan

Throughout my career, I've always portrayed characters that were humorous, but also weren't afraid to speak their minds, especially when it came to racy or controversial topics. I think this struck a chord with the LGBT community. We both also share a very strong love for animals. When you combine the two, it's a very strong match. ~ Betty White

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character ~ William J. Clinton

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai ~ Saif Ali Khan

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I first read [Wendell Berry] short-story collections, "Fidelity" and then "Watch with Me." They just knocked my socks off. The characters and the fellowship of the small town reminded me of my own small town in Illinois.Then I discovered that, much like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, that all of Berry's fiction was centered in this same town. ~ Nick Offerman

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much. ~ Rachel McAdams

You are no greater than what God thinks of you, than what God says of you, than what God desires of you, and than what God does for you. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

The wealth of our character is determined by what we push ourselves to become. ~ A.R. Ivanovich

You find out the true character of a person when they don't take advantage of a sure thing. ~ Alison G. Bailey

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. ~ Elias Boudinot

You have to show the character is confused or scared or happy through your voice instead of with your face and body. ~ Joey King

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. ~ Hermann Hesse

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen. ~ Ellen Schreiber

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and manly fellow who is not a genius; and so, in sports, vast physical strength may overcome weakness, even though the puny body may have in it the heart of a lion. But, in the long run, in the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against that assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities, which we group together under the name of character; and if between any two contestants, even in college sport or in college work, the difference in character on the right side is as great as the difference of intellect or strength the other way, it is the character side that will win. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books. ~ Tina St. John

I'm in love. Don't ask me how it's possible. It's just not in character; my nightmare-ridden, stubborn, melancholy character. And yet, it's
happened. ~ Susan Sontag

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor. ~ Shawnee Smith

There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story. ~ Donald Miller

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character. ~ John C. Maxwell

I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained but also [see] something that has a lot of heart to it. The things we do in the movie - it has a lot of heart, and also it's really smart. The people and the characters that we are, we're really intelligent people that are using our tactics to get back at a guy. The moral of being who you are, and trusting yourself, finding your inner strength - I think that's something that most teen movies don't really dial into. ~ Brittany Snow

People reveal their true character when they're off center. ~ Ted Dekker

Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character. ~ Ravi Zacharias

I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me. ~ Keke Palmer

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue. ~ Aristotle.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros. ~ Bobby Orr

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. ~ Umberto Eco

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character. ~ Idris Elba

I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes. ~ Clint Howard

All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production - by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws made by the capitalist for the protection of property are responsible for anarchism. No one can tell what form the social organisation may take in the future. Then why indulge in prophetic phantasies? At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value. Leave that pastime to the moralists, my boy. ~ Joseph Conrad

Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea. ~ Rick Riordan

You see, the thing is, we write our own eulogies. Someone else delivers it, yes, but each of us authors his own in the life he lives and the memories he leaves. ~ Leonard Pitts Jr.

I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has someday to cry aloud on the housetops. ~ Oscar Wilde

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality. ~ Mia Maestro

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view. ~ Paddy Considine

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself. ~ D.L. Moody

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ... ~ C.S. Lewis