Character Quotes · Page 276

Whatever character I play, I want to inspire. I don't want to just be the girlfriend or be the wife.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

If you REALLY want to know how a guy will treat you, look at how he treats his mom, sister, grandma, boss,…

— Cynthia Silva

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

— Howie Long

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

— Ronald Reagan

..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

— Samuel Johnson

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

— Chris O'Dowd

“She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!”

— Henry Miller

In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you…

— Milton Friedman

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves…

— Bill Vaughan

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Chocolateism: Maintain your integrity even in the atmosphere of compromise, for it only takes one step in compromise, to start losing character.”

— Jacqueline R Banks

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what…

— Aldis Hodge

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always…

— Peter Sarsgaard

I don't smoke weed on set all day. I just want to say that, you know, not all day. After lunch you…

— Seth Rogen

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would…

— Daniel Webster

“Things are not yet perfect, of course,’ sighed the Collector. ‘All the same, I should go so far as to say that…

— J G Farrell

“Goodness in other people naturally arouses our affection and friendship, not because it’s of some material advantage to us, but because it’s…

— Donald J. Robertson

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar…

— Jonathan Alter

With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge…

— Clark Gregg

The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what…

— Vince Vaughn

I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character,…

— Sharlto Copley

It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see…

— Eva LaRue

I started with [Leo] Tolstoy and I was overwhelmed. Tolstoy writes like an ocean, in huge, rolling waves, and it doesn't look…

— Mel Brooks

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

— Confucius

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

— Hugo Hamilton

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

— David Hare

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

— Billy Corgan

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

— Ruta Sepetys

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

— Emily Blunt

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

— Chadwick Boseman

“The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.”

— Arthur F. Holmes

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

— Annie Potts

“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”

— Sophocles

“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

You can tell the size of a persons character by the size of the things they allow to upset them.

— Anonymous