Character Quotes · Page 285

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

— Bray Wyatt

In 'Karol Bagh,' I was playing a supporting role, the character had grey shades.

— Sargun Mehta

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

— Andre Gide

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

— Winston Churchill

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

— Alexander Pope

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

— Tom Felton

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

— Craig Groeschel

Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

— David Bowie

Sarah Cooper sounds like a character on 'The O.C.,' who was written out in season two, and it's like she moved into…

— Sarah Cooper

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about…

— Randy Harrison

What I enjoy most about doing voiceovers is that you can be completely unconscious with the rest of your body and just…

— Justin Long

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can…

— Elle Fanning

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do,…

— Franck Khalfoun

The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand…

— Hanya Yanagihara

We have every reason to say, and I note this with great satisfaction, that a truly friendly relationship has evolved with China,…

— Vladimir Putin

I had creative control over my character, which means if they wanted me to do something that I didn't agree with, then…

— Bill Goldberg

“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The…

— Ian McEwan

There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first.…

— David Wenham

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories…

— Charles Fourier

In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would…

— C. Sommerville

“There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and…

— John Dickson

I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.

— Tony Hale

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

— Victor Garber

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

— Gillian Anderson

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

— Tracey Ullman

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up…

— Sienna Miller

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

— Eugene Simon

The whole Aleister Black character is a creation of my influences, Triple H and NXT, and everyone combined.

— Aleister Black

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

— Epictetus

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

— Madame de Stael

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

— Jonathan Swift

When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like.

— James Spader

“To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.”

— John Leonard

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

— Tamora Pierce

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

— Rachel Scott

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

— Shaunie O'Neal