Character Quotes · Page 234

Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.

— Matt Damon

“If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?”

— Lynda Bester

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

— Angelina Jolie

Playing the character of Arjun is a challenging task, and I like taking up challenges.

— Shaheer Sheikh

I'm so excited to be joining 'After' as Tessa and to be able to bring her character to life.

— Josephine Langford

“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Sound character, integrity, purity, high ethical and moral standards are foundations of effectiveness in leadership.”

— Benjamin Suulola

I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.

— Rick Harrison

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time…

— Pope Francis

TNA has been great as far as allowing me to have more input creatively on my character and the direction of my…

— Christian Cage

I was able to tour successfully and attract a fairly wide audience, but it was hard to assert myself as a stand-up…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am,…

— Stan Lee

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally…

— Milan Kundera

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because…

— Shirley Henderson

It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters…

— Roger Ebert

“The relevant framework is not one of morality but of survival. At every level, from brute camouflage to poetic vision, the linguistic…

— Paul Ekman

Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these…

— Gilles Deleuze

“In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: ‘It isn’t,…

— Jane Goldman

“Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to your goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance;…

— Lysa TerKeurst

Gary Ross one of those directors which lets you do what you need to do to become your character - he lets…

— Willow Shields

To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as…

— Deborah Tannen

Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes…

— Nicolas Chamfort

He's Wayne Rooney - a good character and a lively character,He's been very helpful and understanding and has certainly made me feel…

— Phil Jones

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

— Charlaine Harris

“A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.”

— John R. Dallas Jr

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I enjoyed the Bradshaw character - the beer-drinking character from Texas. It was just fun.

— John Layfield

“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.”

— Aristotle

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.”

— Steven Pinker

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.

— Mike Flanagan

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. —Albert Einstein”

— Warren Greshes

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

— Tennessee Williams

“A country without Moral standard, is like a nation without walls and borders - anything goes”

— Josephine Akhagbeme

Courage is most important virtue, one is blessed with. It is the courage which makes you stand alone even in storm of…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

— Anna Maxwell Martin

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

— Frederick Douglass