Character Quotes · Page 181

I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.

— David Cage

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

— Stephen Moyer

“Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel. But, what about virtue?”

— Mary Oliver

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just…

— Steve Zahn

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

— Michael Scott

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the…

— Swami Vivekananda

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

— Ann Demeulemeester

“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even…

— Ryan Holiday

Sacrifice is greater than love; Character is greater than beauty; Humanity is greater than wealth; But nothing is greater than a sincere…

— Anonymous

Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters…

— Bob Hope

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express…

— Kirk Douglas

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the…

— Oswald Chambers

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either…

— Charles Caleb Colton

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I…

— Paris Hilton

I was in rehearsal and reading the script and I was like, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait. I think I'm related to Data,'…

— Isa Briones

Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of…

— Jane Porter

I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't…

— Stephen Chbosky

There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning…

— Seth MacFarlane

A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief…

— Erin O'Connor

“Is power then,” said Vivaldi, “the infallible test of justice? Is it morality to obey where the command is criminal? The whole…

— Ann Radcliffe

...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history,…

— Rich Mullins

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely…

— William James

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

— Douglas Wilson

“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”

— Sophocles

Being Tickled... Is Like Being Raped But You Are Forced To Laugh.

— Pacifiersucker

A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.

— Elaine S. Dalton

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

— Albert Schweitzer

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

— Darren Star

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

— Richard Gere

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

— Nelson Mandela

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

— Jessica Pare

“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).”

— Albert Camus

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

— Jay Pharoah

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I don't know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.

— Shefali Shah

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

— Voltaire

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

— Cameron Monaghan