Character Quotes · Page 218

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

— Charlotte Riley

“Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good”

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

— Sri Chinmoy

My voice has a lot of character and kind of doesn't sound like a lot of people's.

— Kristian Bush

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

— George Washington

Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

— Junior Seau

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is…

— Victor Hugo

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work…

— Joseph Barbera

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not…

— Confucius

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a…

— Lindsay Lohan

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He…

— Michael Cudlitz

When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your…

— Aamir Khan

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're…

— Thomas Perry

When I see fans in the street or at meet-and-greets, it's great. Sometimes they want me to be that person they see…

— Maryse Mizanin

I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting,…

— Morgan Saylor

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing…

— David Small

To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars,…

— John Krasinski

I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the…

— Barack Obama

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there…

— Gustave Flaubert

With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development.…

— Stephen King

(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk'…

— Taylor Swift

Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and…

— Kris Radish

A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified…

— John Stuart Mill

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

— Sharon Gless

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

— David Thewlis

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” “Perhaps”

— Dalai Lama XIV

The true character stands up when you are deeply tested by life...

— Anonymous

“The moral: Money, position, health, handsomeness, and talent aren’t everything.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

— Ann Patchett

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

— Suzy Kassem

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

— Clark Gregg

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

— Ralph W Sockman

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

— Owen Feltham