Character Quotes · Page 212

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

— Kirsten Dunst

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but…

— Katherine Paterson

I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with.

— Goldust

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

— Mahima Chaudhry

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

Singh Is Bling' is a fun, entertaining film. I play a mad, geeky character called Imli. She has no sense of style.…

— Lara Dutta

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and…

— Richard Dawkins

It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create…

— Dallas Roberts

I notice a lot of younger artists have difficulty telling stories. They might have short stories where they express themselves well, but…

— Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Each performance and each film is what it is. It's right and belongs within that moment. You look at it and try…

— Robert Carlyle

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I…

— Colin Firth

“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern…

— Oscar Wilde

“One of the great dangers of our time is the illusion that moral obligations are somehow weaker if they’re not chosen. We…

— Greg Forster

The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly…

— James F. Cooper

“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity…

— G.K. Chesterton

I feel like I've finally got to this place that I really want to be. The place where, in my fantasy, the…

— Laurie Simmons

I think that comics and television, as mediums, go hand in hand. Both tell long-form, continuing stories that are parsed out into…

— Robert Kirkman

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny,…

— Nancy Meyers

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me…

— Jonathan Ames

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

— Brian Tracy

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

— Tennessee Williams

If one evil eats at the moral fiber of human life in this world that could be termed as Mother of Evils,…

— T Joseph Benziger

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

— Richard Steele

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

— Vernon Howard

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

— Margaret Atwood

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

— Oliver Goldsmith

The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do

— Mak_786

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

— Parvathy

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

— Oscar Wilde