Character Quotes · Page 283

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

— Taryn Manning

“Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually…

— Donald Miller

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

— Anne Frank

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

I debuted in a movie where I had a very heavy role. People did not accept me in that character.

— Zareen Khan

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time…

— Haley Bennett

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I'm very pleased with how far I've come, and I see my injuries and my scars and all my buddies and everybody…

— Kyle Carpenter

“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with…

— Chin-Ning Chu

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My friends know I'm a really big movie buff, and I named Vivianne after a movie character. She was named after Vivianne…

— Jessie James Decker

[ This Is Us] is a character-driven dramedy, in which you will laugh. You may have to pull out your tissue box…

— Sterling K. Brown

If you're creating your character, you can have full ownership of the emotional range they go through. You can make bolder choices.

— Lucy Boynton

“Moral sense is almost completely ignored by modern society. We have, in fact, suppressed its manifestations. All are imbued with irresponsibility. Those…

— Alexis Carrel

... it is a lonely programme. The very virtues you cultivate become walls that inevitably separate you from your kind… A new…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say…

— Cate Blanchett

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is…

— Isabella Beeton

A lot of singers don't really know who they are. They have this massive insecurity and this massive ego and they are…

— Gavin Friday

If I had auditioned for 'Merlin' on magic alone, I don't think I'd have got it. Like any kid, I probably had…

— Colin Morgan

Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is…

— Nancy Gibbs

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor…

— Richard M. Nixon

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

— Mardy Grothe

It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

— Liam Hemsworth

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

— Jubal

I believe in living the character whether it's in films or television.

— Sara Khan

“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

— Zoe Saldana

I am looking at characters that will stay with people, that they will remember. Characters that are relevant.

— Jisshu Sengupta

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

— Tom Hooper

There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.

— Cher Lloyd

“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.”

— Håkan Nesser

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

— Marshall Allman

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

— Daniel Cudmore

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

— David Brock

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

— Sylvester Stallone