Character Quotes · Page 179

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

— Halle Berry

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every Human Who Expresses An Honest Thought Is A Good Soldier In The Army Of Intellectual Liberty...

— Pacifiersucker

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

— T.I

I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

— Pratik Gandhi

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

— John K. Fairbank

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

— Frank Oz

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

— Anonymous

We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it…

— Peter Paige

I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just…

— Dave Bautista

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Feeling right” is about living the life that’s right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It’s also about virtue:…

— Gretchen Rubin

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the…

— Henry Ford

Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety…

— Plato

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults…

— William Shakespeare

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense…

— George Washington

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow…

— Billy Graham

But, it takes some of the characters to some very dark places, and they start doing things that they might not do,…

— Kyra Zagorsky

Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people…

— James Lasdun

“Sentiment would undo her - each of its ties were a tether that would hold her from her purpose. Men, perhaps, might…

— Rachel Kadish

You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that…

— Eric Bischoff

I like as much time as I can get and I'll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role.…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup,…

— Warwick Davis

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're…

— Dave Gibbons

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

— Regina King

I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.

— Emma Kenney

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

— Kate Winslet

It's better if you just base your character exactly how you see it and not base it on anyone else.

— Emily Osment

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

— Imelda Staunton

“Surely intelligence wasn't enough; moral clarity was needed as well.”

— Paul Kalanithi

A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of…

— Scott Eastwood

Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character.

— Amitabh Bachchan

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

— John Shelby Spong

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

— Nelson Mandela

As a mature character artist I thoroughly enjoyed working with the enthusiastic, childlike Salman Khan.

— Vinod Khanna

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person…

— Cornelia Funke

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

— Michael Sheen