Character Quotes · Page 257

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

— Angus T. Jones

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

— Bonnie Wright

There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?".

— George Hamilton

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

— Bob Bergen

“It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It’s so much more convenient to blame others.”

— Raymond E. Feist

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

— Kofi Annan

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind…

— Rufus Wainwright

I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book…

— Marya Hornbacher

I am a black woman who has been given this character called Hermione to play on the stage. But actually, we've all…

— Noma Dumezweni

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh.…

— Brett Gelman

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters…

— Isabel Allende

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But…

— Libba Bray

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A',…

— Emma Stone

I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because…

— Les Wexner

Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite…

— Toby Jones

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to…

— Anonymous

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places.…

— Jonathan Jackson

How do you hold on to the idea that you are good and kind and deserving of love when the whole world…

— Caroline Calloway

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health,…

— Donna Tartt

Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of…

— Anonymous

“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that…

— G.K. Chesterton

Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

— Lawrence Millman

“Death with character has dignity, without it, every breath is burden.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Not often do people say, 'Here is a dream role with a great character, and a great cast and crew.' That never…

— Simone Missick

Don't expect others to let go of your past if you are the one making your past behavior part of your present…

— Shannon Garcon

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

— Jim Rohn

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

— Harry Shearer

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to…

— Robert Burns

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them,…

— Johanna Lindsey

Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.

— Mary McCarthy

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

— Miriam Shor

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

— Horace

Be careful of the words you use to insult others because most of them might be a clear reflection of your personality.

— Tshepo Koos Maluleke

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

— Pearl S. Buck

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

— Alexander Pope

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

— Horace

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera