Character Quotes · Page 177

“Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, “it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably.”

— Ryan Holiday

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work…

— Fran Kranz

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

— Victor Hugo

“Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.”

— John Keats

It isn't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

— William Sidney Porter

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

— Apolo Ohno

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

— Nicole Holofcener

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or…

— Emma Goldman

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another…

— James MacGregor Burns

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own…

— Marge Piercy

Any time I approach a scene, it's not just what's on the page - it's how the camera's going to show or…

— Sam Esmail

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional…

— Peter Jackson

“To be open-minded interminably…is not a virtue. It is a failure to think, a failure to learn, a failure to decide and…

— Roy Hoover

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's…

— Timothy Miller

Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker,…

— Colby Tatem

We always joke now like, you know, the more experienced we get making stuff, we're like, "Never leave set without a shot…

— Mark Duplass

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not…

— Linda Sanchez

“Our increasingly humanistic laws, courts and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting…

— R.J. Rushdoony

Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and…

— Barack Obama

Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He's this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He's…

— Cameron Monaghan

I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship…

— Graeme Simsion

“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.

— Lisa Wilson

“Is it objectively wrong to torture innocent babies, just for fun? Is morality relative?”

— Vincent Bozzino

I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.

— Dennis Haysbert

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

— Robert Bolt

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

— John Milton

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

— Winston Churchill

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

— Ezra Furman

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

— Norm MacDonald

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one.

— Confucius

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

— Lore Segal

I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life.

— Nikitin Dheer