Character Quotes · Page 245

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

— Saqib Saleem

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

— Juvenal

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.”

— Nicole Guillaume

“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,”

— Christina Baker Kline

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

— Anthony Hopkins

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

— Spike Lee

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put…

— Bob Newhart

To all those whose progress remains hampered by ego-related distractions, let humility - the spiritual cornerstone upon which Karate rests - serve…

— Matsumura Sokon

Once you watch any character for nine-and-half hours, be it good, bad or grey, you tend to attach yourself with it. You…

— Pratik Gandhi

The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too,…

— Ludwig von Mises

It's hard to get an inner dialogue in a film. It's not cinematic. But in a musical, the character can just turn…

— Marc Platt

I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have…

— Tomi Adeyemi

“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to…

— Will Durant

Let's take back the rainbow for God. Let the homosexual community find a different religious symbol to commandeer... What I want is…

— Ken Hutcherson

Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are…

— Ronald Reagan

Some actors come to casting and ask me, "Didn't you see my previous roles?" We do not work with actors like this.…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our…

— Timothy Keller

“A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the…

— Charlie Huston

“It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something that is beneficial to…

— C. JoyBell C

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

— Veronica Roth

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

— Rupert Sanders

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

— Muriel Spark

No Person Ever Ended Its Eyesight By Looking On The Bright Side...

— Pacifiersucker

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

— Demi Moore

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

— Sarita Choudhury

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

— William Gilbert

“Do morals matter, if our alternative is a grim and hopeless end?”

— wildbow

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

— Immanuel Kant

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

— Tom Hardy

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

— George Lakoff

“...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

— Aleister Crowley

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda

Our productivity in the kingdom of God is directly related to our character and our Christ-likeness.

— Paul Washer