Character Quotes · Page 175

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

— Peter Drucker

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”

— Dennis Kimbro

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

— Luke Evans

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and…

— Frances Hesselbein

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

— Jacki Weaver

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

— Phyllis Bottome

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

— Riz Ahmed

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

I'm kind of shocked any time somebody hires me and even more shocked any time somebody hires me to play a character…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I choose a film only if my character has got importance. My character should have some weight. I shouldn't be someone who…

— Catherine Tresa

Be it a cameo, a character role or a lead role, I am happy that people are finally recognising my acting calibre…

— Shamna Kasim

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great…

— J. Robbins

“Moral relativism be damned, Riz. There's them, and there's us, and we fight and die for us and that's it.' Holly "Bang-Bang"…

— Charlie Flowers

Without my church, without my teaching of good morals, I wouldn't be the Jabari that I am today. It's the foundation that…

— Jabari Parker

I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a…

— Josh Ryan Evans

I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character…

— Michael Shanks

Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your…

— Karen Kingsbury

If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When I take on a character, it's a sacrifice. There's something that you give up every time. I want to become these…

— Brie Larson

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own…

— Doug Jones

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have…

— Etgar Keret

What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as…

— Jeff Pinkner

Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood…

— Simon R. Green

And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is…

— Zadie Smith

I don't have that X factor; I have to bank on my skills, be true to my character, and hope to be…

— Tiger Shroff

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

— Clint Eastwood

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

— Bill Courtney

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

— Katee Sackhoff

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

— Dennis Prager

“Good character is all about improving your personal moral values to advance to a more desirable state.”

— Joan Jessalyn Cox

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams

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

— Umberto Eco

“Corruption is not a moral problem, it is a distribution system and a way of amassing power.”

— Lisa Margonelli

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

— Nick Denton

“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Just as Yama is a villain for evil forces, my character in 'Yaman' is also a villain against those who don't follow…

— Vijay Antony

Weakness of character in a person is reflected as weakness of attitude & lack of confidence.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

— John Wooden

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

— Peter Temple

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or…

— James Anthony Froude