Character Quotes · Page 250

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.

— Michael Josephson

Persons of character have courage and conviction to withstand challenges of life.

— Anil Sinha

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner

“I’ll never understand it—why people find the truth more shocking than lies.”

— Nita Prose

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

— Ronald Reagan

My 'SMILE' Doesn't Always Mean That I Am Happy... Sometimes It Means I Can Manage,,, And Sometimes It Just Means I'm Tired…

— Pacifiersucker

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and…

— Laurence Sterne

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well…

— Dwight Yoakam

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways…

— Marjane Satrapi

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

When I read the script for 'A Quiet Place', I immediately wanted to be a part of the film. It is such…

— Millicent Simmonds

The quality of your life is determined by the character of those you invite into it. Not everyone is safe to know…

— Jordan Blake Michiels

I never think about the genre I'm in, really, when I'm acting. That's the director's job, to hone us in on the…

— Melissa Barrera

[In a blogosphere] everybody has an opinion now, but I don't really freaking care about - all opinions ain't created equal, because…

— Tavis Smiley

“In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome,…

— E. M. Forster

I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played…

— Elizabeth Sims

“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of…

— Thomas Paine

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If…

— Miranda Richardson

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall…

— Anonymous

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the…

— John Green

'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of…

— Samuel Adams

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

— Liza Campbell

I like the idea of playing people outside of society. That's where I tend to be drawn.

— Sean Harris

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Morality doesnt suit itself when one human being is obeying the laws of morality

— Loferson Odele

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

— Confucius

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

— Charles Spurgeon

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that…

— Chris Chibnall

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

— Patricia Norris

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

— Marcel Proust

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

— Kunal Nayyar

“Remember, adversity does not necessarily build character in a man—but it does reveal it.”

— Rick Johnson

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot