Character Quotes · Page 244

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

— Matthew Arnold

It takes a great strength of character to arrive at Real at eighteen years and make a journey like I have so…

— Raphael Varane

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

— Rasika Dugal

You can pretend to be ordinary, but your eyes tell me another story. ;)

— Zheefy Mysterio

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

— D. B. Weiss

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

— James Anthony Froude

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

— Mario Puzo

Miranda, my character, cannot sing, cannot act, and is really inappropriate.

— Colleen Ballinger

As far as playing different characters within the character, I think that's fun. Very rarely, on TV, do you get to do…

— Aldis Hodge

When you have a lot of people playing different characters, you need to do justice to every character and bring meaning to…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is…

— Ruth Park

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not…

— Pam Grier

Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous,…

— Sacha Baron Cohen

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his…

— Valerie Cruz

You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you…

— Justin Timberlake

Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me…

— Alexander Hamilton

I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I…

— Anne Rice

It is the task of the scenarist to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an…

— Ernst Lubitsch

If you want to be rich, be generous. If you want to make friends, be friendly. If you want to be heard,…

— Melchor Lim

“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life. One is that of…

— Will Durant

With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who…

— Eddie Marsan

Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it…

— Baron d'Holbach

But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get…

— Lea Michele

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

— Robert Quillen

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

— George Santayana

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

— Catherine Keener

The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them

— George Bernard Shaw

Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.

— Henry Mancini

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

— Eric Stonestreet

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

— Thomas Aquinas

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

— Osamu Dazai

“For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences”

— G.K. Chesterton

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

— Henry David Thoreau

“People will reveal themselves to you. In single moments they show you what they are.”

— Travis Mulhauser

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

— Aleksa Palladino

I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has…

— Scott Moir

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

— Tony Bellew

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

— Mark Twain