Character Quotes · Page 198

No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable.

— Nathaniel Bronner Jr

“Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.”

— Steven Ramirez

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

— Karol G

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

— Peter Sarsgaard

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

— Henry Cavill

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

— Garrett Hardin

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

— James Jones

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I am playing the character of Saumya, a transgender, again. Shakti' is going for a giant leap and we are making a…

— Rubina Dilaik

We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty…

— John Wooden

“These fools who haven't the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves man of God,…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it…

— John Dos Passos

I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and…

— Sam Levinson

“Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she…

— Joan Biskupic

Who are you? In constant solitude you will search for yourself. While you bump into millions of your various characters, understand this:…

— Ruben Papian

Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination…

— Immanuel Kant

I can't not have something attached to like what actually happens in real life. Like I can't do a romantic comedy without…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to…

— Marianne Williamson

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a…

— A. J. Liebling

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I didn't play the Ghost Rider in the first movie. That was a stuntman. In this film, the Ghost Rider feels much…

— Nicolas Cage

There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived…

— David Hume

My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to be able to play drama, to be…

— Rob Lowe

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

— Jonathan Maberry

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

— Kevin Abstract

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.

— Matt LeBlanc

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

— Julian Baggini

I have absolutely no problem on doing a negative character. If that matches up to my acting caliber, I will definitely do…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

— Timothy Keller

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Just remember, moral certainty is a luxury of the very young and the very old.”

— P.S. Duffy

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

— Laozi

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

— Blaise Pascal

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

— Nicolas Cage

With a character called Captain , you have to address the concept of who he is because his identity is tied to…

— Joe Russo

Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.

— Zach Braff

I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan