Character Quotes · Page 236

Discipline is not a virtue, but the solicitor of virtuous character.

— Colby Tatem

Goldust is a singular character. I don't need to be put with anybody.

— Goldust

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

— Heath L'Estrange

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

— John Waters

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

— Anonymous

Our true character is reflected as person when no one is watching.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

— Plato

When you're playing a character in a movie, you can add your own touch to it and modify it to suit your…

— Mukesh Rishi

Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is anti-biblical and…

— Pat Buchanan

It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every…

— Ray Stevenson

If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my…

— Cosima Spender

“Yet all we had was here and now, and here and now was always where the struggle toward goodness had to be…

— Dick Francis

A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember…

— Thomas S. Monson

The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe…

— Gabriel Mann

The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures…

— J. G. Ballard

Certainly as a kid, I grew up with Batman, Superman, whoever - they didn't need to be black for me to relate…

— John Ridley

With Aquaman I worked with such talented guys, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. And he's a great character. I mean, Aquaman's a…

— Geoff Johns

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she…

— Gary L. Francione

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in…

— Sianne Ngai

Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always…

— 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle Eustace Percy

I saw Ben Whishaw playing Hamlet at the Old Vic and straight away had a very strong sense that he might be…

— Tom Tykwer

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding…

— Erma Bombeck

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is…

— Ayn Rand

I'm much more character based. I try to just be really committed to what I'm doing.

— John C. Reilly

“Embrace your struggles. Your struggles give you character. They make you who you are.”

— Avijeet Das

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

— Jennifer Lee

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

— Antonio Machado

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

— Michel de Montaigne

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

— Romola Garai

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

— Samuel Adams

“He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga’s entire character.”

— Christopher Paolini

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

— Benjamin Franklin

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.

— Alan Ritchson

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

— Walter Scott

Dad began his career in 1941. He started as a character actor and remained one right up to '87.

— Raza Murad

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

“I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time.”

— Munia Khan