Character Quotes · Page 180

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

— John Fowles

“Courage is chief among virtues. For when any virtue is challenged, it is courage alone that can restore virtue.”

— Jack B Nicholson

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

— Gaspar Noe

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

— John Ruskin

For the Robert Roode character, wrestling is kind of secondary, and money is his main priority.

— Bobby Roode

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where…

— Seth Rogen

It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that…

— Allison Janney

I like to get pretty specific with a character. Not only behavior, but emotional. I go really deep into emotions and get…

— Heidi Gardner

I don't think you have to like a character, but if you can understand why they do what they do, or the…

— Christian Cooke

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters…

— Ryan Gosling

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this ''Obama'' -…

— Jon Voight

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character…

— Baron Vaughn

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small…

— Anonymous

When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most…

— Daniel Kehlmann

With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that…

— Nicholas Meyer

The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first…

— Jean Piaget

All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in…

— Andrew Sullivan

It seems every bouncer, every bodybuilder wants to become a wrestler. Every day, people will come up to me and ask about…

— Rocky Johnson

If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some…

— Rory Culkin

I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even…

— Jung So-min

The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel…

— Walt Disney

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

— Plato

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

— Emile Durkheim

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

— Anonymous

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

— Mark Helprin

“Only stagnant people get stuck because they don't attempt to move at all.”

— Alicia Jennings

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

— David Hewlett

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

— Julianna Baggott

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

— John Cory

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

— Neal A. Maxwell

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

— Leonard Read

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

Rumor is what people say you are. Reputation is who people think you are. Character is who you really are when no…

— Nishan Panwar

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

— Joseph P. Farrell

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

— Stevie Wonder