Character Quotes · Page 223

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

— Willam Belli

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

— Jeremy Renner

“One who calls virtue into being is one who has what it takes to make a success.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

— Donald Pleasence

If I like a particular character or story, I usually say yes to the film.

— Rajkummar Rao

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

— William Bennett

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

— Joseph Joubert

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

— Eugene O'Neill

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

— Natalie Portman

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

— Fisher Ames

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always…

— Andy Serkis

Personally, I love going to see a film when you can really watch a character. If you've just read some article about…

— Christian Bale

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front…

— Rajkummar Rao

When you want to win, and you want to go to work every day, you want to work with high character people;…

— J. B. Bickerstaff

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I…

— Karin Fossum

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the…

— Jane Cleland

My message to everyone is that we truly are one, and the minute you see me as the person, not just as…

— Mustafa Ali

If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary…

— David Friedrich Strauss

Freemasonry is an ancient and respectable institution, embracing individuals of every nation, of every religion, and of every condition in life. Wealth,…

— Anonymous

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor…

— Armie Hammer

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease…

— Bertrand Russell

“Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my life, my history as an…

— John Elder Robison

“He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least,…

— K.J. Bishop

All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we…

— David Hume

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

— James Goldsmith

I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.

— Neeraj Kabi

“Character is what we do when no one else is watching" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world…

— John Searles

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

— George Will

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

— Ayn Rand

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst…

— Michael Josephson

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

— Bertolt Brecht

I always enjoyed being a villain more, probably because you get to do and say a lot of things you wouldn't do…

— Beth Phoenix

I've always tried to keep my family and how I was raised and my morals in the back of my head.

— Becca Kufrin

Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.

— Guru Nanak

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

— Confucius

One of the things I pride myself on is that I don't cuss. It's extremely rare, but when I do it kind…

— Dr. Disrespect

I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational.

— Priyanka Chopra