Contrasting Character Quotes

#1. What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#2. If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Suzanne Vega

#3. It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Josiah Stamp

#4. Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the
greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them

Bert Hellinger

#5. At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#6. If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

Olivia De Havilland

#7. I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

Gia Coppola

#8. What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

Ashton Kutcher

#9. Misery does ever so well in wealthy countries.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#10. I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

David Bowie

#11. This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

Harry Reid

#12. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Lucius Accius

#13. Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

Greg Rucka

#14. 'W.' is not necessarily a political film, but it was sort of a contrasting reality for me to get into George W. Bush as a character because of how I felt about his administration before I started making the film.

Josh Brolin

#15. Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

Jeffrey Zaslow

#16. Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

W. H. Auden