Character Quotes · Page 290

Commitment is the stuff character is made of: the power to change in the face of great adversity and those who doubt.

— JREYES

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away…

— Nathan Fillion

What's really fun as the villain is working to get the audience to hate you.

— Corey Stoll

“Being healthy is sufficient proof of one having a strong character. The rest is subjective.”

— Haresh Sippy

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

— John Cassian

I just cannot do a boring film. It has to be interesting with a good character.

— Huma Qureshi

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

— Gilles Deleuze

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in…

— John Lasseter

Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that…

— Michael Josephson

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,…

— E. O. Wilson

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book…

— Raymond E. Feist

As Laurel Van Ness it's so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be…

— Laurel Van Ness

What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all…

— Robert Wade

Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And,…

— Matt Drudge

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in…

— Mindy Kaling

“Society will always do better where citizens have a belief in justice, honour and private morality. Where individuals are reduced to the…

— Cory Bernardi

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the…

— Thomas Carlyle

The rewards of integrity are immeasurable. One is the indescribable inner peace and serenity that come from knowing we are doing what…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal…

— Sam Harris

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral…

— Barry Lopez

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the…

— Marian Evans

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a…

— Idina Menzel

Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

— Andre Holland

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

— Terry Goodkind

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to…

— Robert E. Lee

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

— Confucius

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

— Kate Morton

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

— Henry Clay

Detailing and backstories are so important; only they draw you into the life of a character.

— Richa Pallod

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

— Cathy O'Neil

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Aaron Hill

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

— Fahadh Faasil

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

— John McDonnell

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

— Leigh Bardugo

Being real sometimes means being able to admit that you're wrong. It shows strength in character, not weakness.

— Anonymous