Character Quotes · Page 266

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right…

— Alice Hoffman

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

— David O. McKay

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his…

— Saint John Chrysostom

America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.

— Neil Macdonald

“By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to…

— C.S. Lewis

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

— Bill Condon

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who…

— Nat Wolff

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both…

— Rupert Grint

If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the…

— Neil Burger

“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I…

— Sol Luckman

Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to…

— Kofi Siriboe

When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was…

— Euripides

A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but…

— Anuj

I think I'm a real good person off the field. I've got good character traits, I go to Church often, and I…

— Jeremy Shockey

I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character…

— Samuel L. Jackson

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or…

— Anonymous

... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in…

— Marcel Proust

Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is…

— Iris Murdoch

. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All…

— Richard LaGravenese

The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation…

— Martin Luther King III

I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up…

— Kam Williams

“So are we going to play this good cop, bad cop?" Brett asked as Nathan returned to the monitoring room. "Absolutely not.…

— Jordyn Redwood

I was blonde most of my life and I had to dye my hair for a role. I couldn’t believe the difference…

— Amy Adams

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

— Kiara Advani

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

— Confucius

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

— Lambert of Maastricht

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

— Alexa Vega

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

— Radha Mitchell

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

— Anonymous

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

— Tacitus

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

— Tom Clancy

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

— George Eliot

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

— Jeanne Moreau