Character Quotes · Page 251

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

— Brady Corbet

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

— G. Willow Wilson

Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

— James Ivory

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

— Jonathan Swift

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

I want to explore myself and do various characters. That's what I understand and that's what gives me happiness.

— Sunil Grover

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

— Monica Keena

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

— Ronald Reagan

It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs…

— Michelle Dockery

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much…

— Duncan Jones

I understand in the context of acting, it allows me to manifest character, but I am no wiser then the next person…

— Peter Scolari

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of…

— Zachary Levi

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of…

— Paul Rudd

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the…

— Hugo Weaving

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and…

— Brad Stone

“More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Talking about morality can be offensive. Morality is a politically incorrect subject. Many people are genuinely offended if someone speaks of morality…

— Ali Sina

“The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what we are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen…

— Iain Banks

I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and…

— Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

When I first became "controversial" and the fanbase became divided it was backwards! Because normally in our industry, when you hear a…

— John Cena

The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine…

— Gardiner Spring

I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I…

— Kenya Barris

I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of…

— Edward Enninful

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

— Jeff Cooper

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

— Abraham Cowley

True caliber of a man could easily be known by what he says about others, not by what other say about him.

— Yasmine Tariq

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

— Joan Van Ark

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

— Madame de Stael

Thank goodness for me, 'Smallville''s Lois Lane is younger, so there's a little bit of play with the character.

— Erica Durance

If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

— Bae Doona

Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

— Robert H. Shaffer

“Such a better world it would be if we all had the morals of a Golden Retriever; butt sniffing notwithstanding.”

— A.A. Bell

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

— Dallas Willard

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

— John Maynard Keynes

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.

— Christine Caine

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

— James N. Frey

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte