Character Quotes · Page 227

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

— Prince Philip

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human…

— Alexander Skarsgard

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

— Luc de Clapiers

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

— Walter Savage Landor

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

— Allison Silverman

What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next.

— Alexa Vega

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

— Amy Adams

“Within each of us are two competing sides, a polarity of character. Only one leads to greatness.”

— Lolly Daskal

I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think…

— Daniel H. Pink

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

— Vladimir Putin

So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted…

— Molly Antopol

Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character…

— Muhtar Kent

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader…

— Richard Corliss

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my…

— Michael Fassbender

It's definitely my responsibility not to stereotype any character, but especially a gay character because of the misperceptions people still have about…

— Haaz Sleiman

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which…

— Asa Butterfield

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research…

— Amy Waldman

“While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's…

— Alexander Hamilton

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as…

— Socrates

“The attempt to understand morality in the legalistic terms of a natural law is ancient but is now mostly associated with the…

— Knud Haakonsen

I think that a lot of the time I don't go for something in particular. I see what comes to me, I…

— Asa Butterfield

“When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.”

— Cathryn Louis

I'm way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It's just my personality, I guess.

— Travis Fimmel

I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read,…

— Gail Simone

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

— John Dryden

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

— Henry David Thoreau

I think what makes me stand out from the rest is my melodic style combined with my voice, which has a distinct…

— Nadia Ali

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

— David Halberstam

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

What was really special about 'Hanna' as a character is her pursuit of agency.

— Esme Creed-Miles

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens…

— Curtis Hanson

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

— Josh Hutcherson

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

— Rush Limbaugh

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

— Emily Giffin

When I'm playing a bad guy, a lot of it is imagined: things I thought I wanted to do, but I never…

— Emory Cohen

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

— Lucy Liu