Character Quotes · Page 211

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

— Laura Vandervoort

It's pretty cool to watch a film where the character barely says anything but you can see exactly what he's thinking.

— Noah Schnapp

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

— Sam Harris

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

— Massimo Vignelli

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.

— Ann-Margret

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will…

— T. D. Jakes

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they…

— Tate Taylor

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write…

— Sandra Brown

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days,…

— Brian Henson

“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense.…

— Roy T. Bennett

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from…

— Ben Bass

If you don't have the personality or character to compete and to challenge Manchester United at Old Trafford, or at home, you…

— Marco Silva

I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett,…

— A. A. Gill

Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you…

— Carol Channing

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate…

— Aristotle

In my opinion, the bottom line is that actors act. They take on roles that are outside of the scope of their…

— Chris McCausland

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film…

— David Small

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness…

— Wallace Stegner

When my marriage broke up... I had just put on 45 pounds for my 'Shall We Dance?' character. I had to eat…

— Lisa Ann Walter

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the…

— Marie Calloway

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

— Philip Kitcher

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

— Elie Saab

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

— Brad Falchuk

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

— Ally Carter

“A conversa impregnada de vaidade e o pretensiosismo são raramente compatíveis com a virtude.”

— Confucius

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

— Elif Batuman

Honestly, being a liar or user is nothing to be proud of. If you think it is your morals are questionable.

— Sonya Parker

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

— Susie Dent

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

— Jennifer Hale

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

— Conrad Hilton

Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.

— Frank Shamrock

“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.”

— Ben Shapiro

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

— Alex Carey