Character Quotes · Page 230

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

— Caroline Leavitt

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

— Kevin Spacey

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private. ª

— Myles Munroe

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

— Will Gluck

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

— James Madison

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

— Seneca the Younger

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many…

— Sue Grafton

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life…

— Shirley MacLaine

I think I used Christine, who is my stage character, as an excuse to finally be myself, as if I needed to…

— Christine and the Queens

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate…

— Mark Ravenhill

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to…

— Sonu Sood

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity…

— Michael Josephson

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and…

— Henry Ford

I might revisit - I like the idea of doing something else with [Hunt for the Wilderpeople characters]. But also I get…

— Taika Waititi

“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still…

— George Saunders

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of…

— Warren Leight

If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people…

— Charles Hampden-Turner

“For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Her motivation was love, her love for her father, and her journey of finding out who she truly is. That was my…

— Liu Yifei

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this…

— Amandla Stenberg

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

Playing a real-life character is definitely a lot more responsibility than one that is fictionalized.

— Lacey Chabert

In 'Kal Kissne Dekha' my character was quite hard to believe and that was the problem.

— Jackky Bhagnani

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

— Harper Lee

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play…

— Jamie Dornan

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

— Dennis Rodman

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

— Woodrow Wilson

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I never base characters on real people - you can get into so much trouble that way!

— Michael Scott

Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film '15 Park Avenue' where I played a schizophrenic.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to…

— Denis Diderot

The music is not used repetitiously to create film atmosphere. It is, in fact, the leading character.

— Bob Mondello

When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Believe, people can ruin you reputation but no one can ever ruin your character except yourself

— Melchor Lim