Character Quotes · Page 282

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

— Josephine Langford

The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Just because you made some mistakes in your past doesn't mean you have to be defined by your mistakes.

— Julia Diaz

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what…

— H. L. Mencken

“The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that…

— Nancy Goldstone

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

— Samuel Johnson

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

— Confucius

“There will always be dark characters, but her life is good; it is as she wishes it to be.”

— John O'Brien

I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my…

— Vincent Cassel

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of…

— Edmund Burke

“An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke…

— C.G. Jung

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With…

— Benicio Del Toro

Spiritual maturity with only conformity, love, unity & spirit-led without accountability, morality, transparency & integrity is just pure spirit blindness.

— Michael Chuang

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to…

— Danny Pino

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy,…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths…

— Ben Lerner

“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,…

— Baruch Spinoza

Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For…

— Anthony the Great

“Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which…

— Aleister Crowley

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which…

— Billy Collins

If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent.…

— Lela Loren

In my own life, I think I've always been a bit of a people pleaser. Maybe the world around me was a…

— Heidi Gardner

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

— Anson Mount

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

— Sam Richardson

Angels are not from heaven,our sincerity towards others will show the angels around us.

— Sumesh Nair

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

— Mark Waid

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

— Hunter Tylo

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

— Katee Sackhoff

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If I am not playing the villain then I'll play the friend, or the brother who dies in the third reel.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

My job was to play my character in the best way that I could, and hopefully people will enjoy that.

— Sean Hayes

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.

— Goldust

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

— John D. Rockefeller