Character Quotes · Page 182

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

— Laurence Sterne

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

— Dayananda Saraswati

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a…

— Anonymous

“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

— Sudeep

Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

— Agnes Strickland

When you play an anti-hero, it is a task to make people empathise with your character.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide…

— Sacha Dhawan

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one…

— Pema Chodron

Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your…

— R. Lee Ermey

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of…

— Jon Weber

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be…

— Rashida Jones

For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what…

— Akhil Sharma

I've kind of gotten mad over the years, reading different Punisher stories and seeing multiple Punisher movies. Nobody gets the character right.

— CM Punk

For everyone else who aren't fantasy fans or who don't know anything about 'The Witcher', this is something that we can experience…

— Anya Chalotra

He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a…

— Gustave Flaubert

If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: 'Call the fire department,' 'Get your fire extinguishers…

— John Morrison

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman…

— Christian Bale

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against…

— John Adams

I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to…

— Rachel Vincent

The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers…

— Frances Hesselbein

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other…

— Parker Posey

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

— David O. McKay

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

— Barbara Kingsolver

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

— Natalie Grant

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

— Milla Jovovich

I agree to play a character if I feel that as an audience member, it will entertain me.

— Babu Antony

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

— Scott Speedman

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on…

— Ann Brashares

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

— Lucy Alibar

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

— Alain de Botton

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

— Richard Marquand

Part of what makes my character work is the delivery of the truth behind my comments.

— Kenny Omega

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

— Carl Gustav Carus

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

— Robert M. Hutchins

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in…

— Hattie McDaniel

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh