Character Quotes · Page 192

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

— Zara Phillips

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

— Theodore Dreiser

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

— Henri Bergson

It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.

— Krysten Ritter

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

— Katharine Hepburn

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I felt the script of 'Shivajinagara' was perfect as my character is that of a good guy with shades of grey.

— Adithya Menon

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

— James Richardson

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader…

— Richard Corliss

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about…

— Haaz Sleiman

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in…

— Ryan Reynolds

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're…

— Hugo Weaving

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the…

— Jane Cleland

I truly believe that recovery requires some kind of stasis where you have to sit and internalize and lick your wounds and…

— Justin Rutledge

I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying…

— Katie Cassidy

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten…

— Michael Ironside

Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within…

— Andrew Linzey

Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one…

— Herbert Butterfield

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and…

— Isabel Allende

The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be…

— Eben Moglen

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows…

— Anthony Minghella

“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

— Susan Howe

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

— Theodore Roosevelt

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test…

— Cressida Cowell

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

— Fritz Kreisler

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

— William James

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

— Bryan Greenberg

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

— Jeff Kinney

When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into…

— Marion Cotillard

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

— Milla Jovovich

When you're a VJ, you can say whatever you want, dress whatever way you want to. You play your own character.

— Rhea Chakraborty

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

— Georges Danton

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great…

— Anonymous

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

— Washington Irving

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

— Monica Crowley

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn