Character Quotes · Page 202

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

— Tom Johnson

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

— Catherine Deneuve

To this day, that's what I love the most: finding and playing characters who are out of my experience.

— David Morse

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from…

— Linda Cardellini

I always give much attention to military character and to psychological and morale conditions.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

— Tite Kubo

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I will play different characters and do whatever excites me. I won't stick to one medium and as they say, never say…

— Radhika Madan

I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very…

— Woody Harrelson

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,…

— Glen Cook

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the…

— Albert Camus

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of…

— Maria Jane McIntosh

Sometimes there are no answers to life's questions. Accepting the things we cannot change without question, shows a strength of character that…

— Abhishek Tiwari

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a…

— Erich Fromm

“We are agents blessed with moral agency and are defined by our divine heritage as children of God—and not by sexual behaviors,…

— David A. Bednar

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews,…

— Orison Swett Marden

Obviously, with a CGI character, you're building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build…

— Peter Jackson

I don't believe, in a show like ours, that you really want to see character growth. That's just my opinion. Maybe to…

— Ty Burrell

The book [Night manager] is amazing. It is amazing to act in any book adaptation, because a book gives you so many…

— Tom Hiddleston

Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts…

— Joseph Conrad

I'm not really interested in playing famous people. I prefer to create characters. And I hope I have an exciting enough life…

— Nicolas Cage

We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a…

— Christopher Meledandri

“Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the…

— Frederick C. Beiser

I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.

— David Essex

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

— Henry Steele Commager

“Every circumstance gives us a chance to develop our character.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

— Colin Hay

So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

— Anonymous

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and…

— Thomas a Kempis

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

— Ravi Zacharias

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

— Mark Shields

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

I do think your attitude towards money is an inherent part of your character.

— Anne Robinson

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

— Peter Mullan

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

— Rowan Atkinson

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

— Gary Bauer

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect…

— Pankaj Tripathi

A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.

— Liao Yiwu

“Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.”

— Nathan McCall