Character Quotes · Page 14

Character doesn't matter.

— William J. Clinton

It's a moral question.

— Rowan Williams

“Virtue has need of limits.”

— Anonymous

“Virtue lies in moderation”

— Aristotle

Villains are fun to play.

— Edi Gathegi

Does truth have a moral?

— Rick Riordan

There are no moral victories.

— Sean McDermott

“Moral writing is boring.”

— Johan van Wyk

Never presume yours is a better morality.

— Graham Greene

It's always more interesting to play the villain.

— James Caan

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

— Alfred North Whitehead

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

— Sai Pallavi

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

— Abraham Lincoln

Character is the key to your success. Inspiration is key.

— Rudy Ruettiger

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

— Giancarlo Esposito

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

— François-René de Chateaubriand

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

— Tom Selleck

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

— Joaquin Phoenix

“How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?”

— Henry David Thoreau

A man, I stand alone, owning my sins as sincerely as my virtues, sans excuse or defense. Take me or leave me…

— Anonymous

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

— Glen Duncan

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

— Elaine de Kooning

Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral…

— Robert Burns

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me,…

— Tatiana Maslany

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the…

— Larry the Cable Guy

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the…

— Todd Phillips

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your…

— Kane

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go…

— Mae Whitman

Everyone has two faces but often we see only one side of them so never judge anyone by there looks because the…

— Aaron Chan

I'm very impressionable: I get very taken away by stories and certain feelings. With writing, sometimes I want to feel like a…

— Kevin Morby

I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or…

— Rebecca Wells

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little…

— Marcel Proust

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and…

— Ron Paul

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage…

— William Shakespeare

My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long…

— Leisha Hailey

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain…

— Ming-Dao Deng

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.…

— E. O. Wilson

There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your…

— Neil Blumenthal