Character Quotes · Page 248

“To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.”

— Lee Ellis

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

— Benjamin Franklin

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

— Katheryn Winnick

Take care of your kid's character, and everything will follow after that. Character is everything

— Dennis Prager

Exploring the dark side of my characters' personality is my forte.

— Vijay Deverakonda

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

— Joyce Meyer

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really.…

— Colum McCann

Moral value includes of what is right or just in behaviour; arising from conscience or the sense of right and wrong.Social value…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or…

— Amy Ryan

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to…

— William Least Heat-Moon

[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.

— David Hume

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

— David Nicholls

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of…

— Baltasar Gracian

A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main…

— Kim Jong-un

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it,…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in…

— Thomas Merton

It took a very long time to really enjoy an audition, and to get in the room and do the best that…

— Ann Dowd

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think…

— Jens Lekman

I can't really recreate or reconstruct exactly how or from where any of my characters originate, young or old, though chances are…

— Jack Driscoll

When the Seinfeld show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It…

— J. Michael Straczynski

The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely…

— Gabriel Mann

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge.…

— Karan Bajaj

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“You've always been broken, love, it's the crux of your character.”

— Christopher Moore

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm an excellent judge of character. I can tell people who want something from me or if they're actually buddies.

— CM Punk

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

— Anonymous

It's definitely hard to say good-bye to a character that you've played for a long time.

— Paula Malcomson

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

— Allen Lacy

“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.”

— Randy Wayne White

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

— Dale Jamieson

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

— America Ferrera

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

— Anne Lamott

Be a beautiful person with your attitude, your words and your behavior.

— Nishan Panwar

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage

— Anonymous

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

— Randy Quaid

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie