Character Quotes · Page 237

“…I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity—akin to torture.”

— Sandra Lee Dennis

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

— John Adams

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character.

— Ridley Scott

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

— Sherilyn Fenn

“Excellence in the mind is wisdom. Excellence in the heart is virtue. Excellence in the soul is love.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre,…

— Jim Broadbent

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all…

— Aristotle

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time…

— Freddie Highmore

You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and…

— David Leitch

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real…

— Stephen Coonts

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

— Brandon Sanderson

Yeah i thought about making the character of JD gay... But then i thought, but what about all the poor girls dreams…

— Zach Braff

Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favorite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve…

— Ela Bhatt

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are…

— Emily Deschanel

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five…

— David Small

The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In…

— Linus Pauling

Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than…

— Yash Chopra

“If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every…

— William H. Gass

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small…

— Aristotle

One of the real dangers of loyalty is that it may become associated with certain types of group-think, chauvinism, jingoism, and thus…

— John Kleinig

People like to put music and art up against the dehumanizing character of commerce and business corporations.

— David Longstreth

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

— Ana Layevska

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no…

— Ann Landers

Obstacles are placed in our way to see if what we want is really worth fighting for.

— Anonymous

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

— David Novak

“The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character.”

— John Yorke

Iowa is speckled with vibrant communities like Wilton, each with its own character and its own story to tell.

— Kim Reynolds

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

It's always about the project itself than a character for me. It's all experiential.

— Shea Whigham

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

— Lord Acton

We have an identity that we have constructed, a me, which is a combination of memories, feelings, opinions, and experiences.

— Anonymous

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

— Anton Chekhov

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf.

— Ilona Andrews

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

— Alphonse Karr

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson