Character Quotes · Page 205

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

— Holland Taylor

“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.”

— Peter Prange

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

— Bill Lawrence

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

— Lemuel K Washburn

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

— Danny Pintauro

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

— Johnny Carson

There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the…

— Amy Hempel

I've had a wonderful life, I've been a husband and a father who cherishes his children and now I'm a grandfather, and…

— B. J. Thomas

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying…

— Christopher Lee

If you want to get into the business of doing voices for cartoons, you've got to be a good actor. It's all…

— Bob Bergen

For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and…

— Gregory of Nyssa

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all…

— Napoleon Hill

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then…

— Jimmy Buffett

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on…

— A. N. Wilson

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real…

— Martin McDonagh

One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is…

— Dominic Monaghan

“I am charged with guarding sanity, not morality. If you want to stay together, do not split. If you want peace, do…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go,…

— Gary Oldman

“Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character…

— Avicenna

I think I am an actress and I'm artistic and I love spontaneity and all of that, but I just decided really…

— Jenna Fischer

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at…

— Aldous Huxley

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and…

— Lauren Bowles

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

— Arthur Herzog

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

— Shigesato Itoi

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

— Garrett Hardin

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

— Penn Jillette

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never…

— Charles Dickens

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

— Jill Scott

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page.

— Akira Toriyama

“Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it.”

— Daniel Habil

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

— Emma Donoghue

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

— Aishwarya Rajesh