Character Quotes · Page 220

Character-wise, I try to always switch it up. Whatever I'm doing now, I try to do the complete opposite next.

— Cailee Spaeny

“FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.”

— David R. Wommack

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

— Anne Frank

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

— Jean-Luc Godard

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

— P.D. Ouspensky

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

— Dana Carvey

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

— Andy Serkis

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

— David Thewlis

I can't do the same things again, I don't repeat any character, and I am in a space I am comfortable in.…

— Nikitin Dheer

He's not a coach who speaks to you every day. Wenger has spoken to me two or three times. He's told me…

— Granit Xhaka

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me…

— R-Truth

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big…

— Paul Klee

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what…

— Karen Allen

It's been eight years now that I have been working in Bollywood and have done everything - from item songs to character…

— Payal Rohatgi

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at…

— William Hazlitt

We expect to foster a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.

— Betsy DeVos

I love making people laugh, and to be able to be that humorous character was great. And I actually was very similar…

— Matthew Lewis

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him…

— Joseph Campbell

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual…

— Alfred Binet

My character is just an extension of me. The in-ring work, the things that will always be said about me: Big, overbearing,…

— Bill Goldberg

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the…

— Laura Marling

Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the…

— Louis Garrel

We've lost a lot of coaches around here, but the philosophy and the approach, the standards we have set and the expectations…

— Pete Carroll

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

— Jason Momoa

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

— Patricia Clarkson

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and it's a brand new audience for me.

— Kevin Spacey

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

— Sudha Chandran

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

— Noah Baumbach

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

— Rooney Mara

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the…

— Joss Whedon

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

— Alan Watts

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

— Anne Hathaway

“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.”

— John Wesley

Three things define you. Your words, your actions and your attitude.

— Anil Sinha

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

— Robert D. Kaplan

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a…

— Julia McNair Wright

The person I've worked with most is Morena Baccarin, and from her, I've learned to stand up for your character.

— Morgan Saylor

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

— Charles Caleb Colton