Character Quotes · Page 284

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

— Jerry Hall

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

— Taraji P. Henson

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

— Khushwant Singh

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

— Sophie Hannah

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

— Mercy Otis Warren

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

— Caroline Lawrence

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

— John Kador

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

— Herbert Spencer

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a…

— Hari Kunzru

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I…

— Carol Burnett

[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah,…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that…

— Anonymous

Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

— Chang-Rae Lee

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal…

— Brandon Routh

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer of the character. And that's what used to draw me to scripts...something in…

— Vera Farmiga

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were…

— Vivienne Westwood

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard…

— Reese Witherspoon

You really see life around the principals to be as important as the main, principal actors. That's what cinéma vérité taught me…

— Milos Forman

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have…

— Humphry Davy

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own…

— Brad Blanton

I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love.…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

— Bill Courtney

“it is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.”

— Seneca

“I think a character in a comedy should not know they're in a comedy.”

— Steve Carell

Unless Your Name Is Google, Stop Acting That You Know Everything...

— Pacifiersucker

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

— Vanessa Paradis

“For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. To”

— Tony Hsieh

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

— Chris Hemsworth

“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

— Isaac Asimov

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice…

— Anonymous

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

If you want to identify someones character, examine the friends he sits with.

— Anonymous

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

— Mort Walker

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg