Character Quotes · Page 286

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

— Luc de Clapiers

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

— Marc Webb

I love being the bad guy. I think that the audience prefer me as a bad guy.

— Alberto Del Rio

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

— Anonymous

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with…

— Paul Bloom

“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human…

— Abhijit Naskar

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go…

— Kristan Higgins

I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an…

— D. B. Sweeney

As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I…

— Jennifer Morrison

“Man skills may win you man points, but manhood virtues win the heart of God. Virtue is much harder to develop than…

— Mark Batterson

I've noticed though that people will always assume you are the character you last played. I guess it's a compliment to playing…

— Lisa Haydon

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract…

— George Parsons Lathrop

I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old…

— Johnny Depp

Throw away holiness and wisdom, and people will be a hundred times happier. Throw away morality and justice, and people will do…

— Laozi

Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,…

— Sarah Waters

I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his…

— Teddy Wayne

“In a world where PG 13 means kinda-sorta-depends on your level of morals, I don’t wish to loosen our kids’ morals just…

— Cyndi Goodgame

I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending…

— Graham McTavish

I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces…

— Sally Field

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

— Daniel Sharman

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

— John D. Rockefeller

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

— Edward Thorndike

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

— David Robinson

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

— Tituss Burgess

“You can’t understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.”

— Martyn V. Halm

The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.

— Ann Coulter

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

— David Edelstein

The temperament and habit of a person inside and outside of his/her character once he gets to his/her companion.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

— George Henry Lewes

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

— Ray Bradbury

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

— Maggie Shayne