Character Quotes · Page 278

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

— Will Friedle

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

A lot of people think, like, 'JoJo' is fake or 'JoJo' is a character. But, like, it's not.

— JoJo Siwa

“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

— Don Winslow

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

— David Walton

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

— Robert Englund

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with…

— Val Kilmer

“Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and…

— Wess Stafford

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the…

— Samuel Butler

I love that I get to play a black character who's not a stereotype, who is not afraid to be vulnerable, who…

— Ncuti Gatwa

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so…

— Zig Ziglar

But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with…

— Christian Bale

“I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind…

— André Breton

I wouldn't say Bond is an ideal figure, no. The character has been performed in so many different ways that people go,…

— Henry Cavill

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were…

— Peter Hedges

“I was recently cautioned about some 'difficult' characters in a work-in-progress, and I was surprised at first to hear them labeled as…

— Lisa Lutz

There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize…

— Allison Janney

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

My life is simple, my food is plain, and my quarters are uncluttered. In all things, I have sought clarity. I face…

— Yi Sun-sin

I don't know what people want, really. Does somebody have to die? What is meant by resolution? These are questions that I…

— Mary J. Miller

As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,…

— Samuel

I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to…

— Howard Gardner

“the foundation of effectiveness is not first techniques or tools, but character.”

— Matt Perman

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United…

— Edmund Randolph

I thought, 'Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?' And it was like, 'Yeah, I'd love to be able to…

— Kathy Burke

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

— John Green

“Being boring is as likely as being interesting to make one impossible to forget.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

— Edward Abbey

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

— Ayn Rand

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

— Charles Bukowski

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

— Anonymous

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

— Nicole Kidman

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with…

— Joel Kinnaman

“One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.”

— Raheel Farooq

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.”

— Evan Esar