Character Quotes · Page 264

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

— Tacitus

Your character may be judged by how much and how well you talk if you dont talk about yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

— Tacitus

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

— Kim Bodnia

“Morality itself requires transcendence, the existence of a “real” goodness.”

— James W Sire

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

— Charles Bukowski

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

— Tom Brady

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

— Stephen Hillenburg

Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain…

— Andrew Dice Clay

Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we…

— Richard G. Scott

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This,…

— Don Bluth

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of…

— Al-Jahiz

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a…

— Kurt Sutter

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can…

— Viola Davis

Raven's always trying to do the best she can for the group. Aside from the couple of mistakes she's made, she's always…

— Lindsey Morgan

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through…

— Andy Serkis

Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the…

— Andrew Jackson

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I don't think it's an ethical or moral issue, or even that people are stupid, but I do feel like as a…

— Ian MacKaye

To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the…

— Cam Gigandet

A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's…

— Jeff VanderMeer

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's…

— Dan Futterman

I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather…

— Mike Figgis

What I love about the 'Alien' franchise is I would do all kinds of films - dramas, comedies, whatever - and every…

— Sigourney Weaver

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

“Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”

— Vince Gill

“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain”

— Diego Rivera

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

— Llewelyn Powys

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

— William Penn

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

— Jane Haddam

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

“My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak.”

— Ginny Lynn Peebles

I feel it's important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.

— Carmella

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

— Tessa Virtue

“Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.”

— Aristotle

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

— Thomas Paine

You don't necessarily think that with a Disney prince that you're going to get to have a little bit of a character…

— Harris Dickinson