Character Quotes · Page 293

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

— Stephen Hillenburg

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

— Tom Brady

“Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”

— Vince Gill

“Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain”

— Diego Rivera

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you…

— Ernest Hemingway

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

— Llewelyn Powys

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

— Jane Haddam

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and…

— Roger Zelazny

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and…

— Caroline Dhavernas

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the…

— Rachael Taylor

I am a variety machine; I look for variety in my characters, and an extra edge in the characterisation helps in bringing…

— Allu Arjun

Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her…

— Epictetus

Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of…

— Callan McAuliffe

I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would…

— Zachary Levi

I mean PJ - James Ransone - he was a friend of mine, he probably heard all this stuff, but for the…

— Ti West

The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and…

— Kathy Bates

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing…

— Stephan Pastis

There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was…

— Mamie Van Doren

I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any…

— James Frey

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a…

— Catherine Wilson

I want each character to be as unique as possible. I want them to reflect something of who they are in the…

— Jesmyn Ward

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

— William Penn

I feel it's important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.

— Carmella

“My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak.”

— Ginny Lynn Peebles

“Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible.”

— Aristotle

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

— Tessa Virtue

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

— Thomas Paine

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

— Maria Doyle Kennedy

You don't necessarily think that with a Disney prince that you're going to get to have a little bit of a character…

— Harris Dickinson

All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel…

— James Russell Lowell

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Addiction is not a moral defect, and to suggest that does a great disservice to people suffering with this disorder.”

— Lance Dodes

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

— Michael Shurtleff

A man with a lot of knowledge and no character is a dangerous man.

— Anonymous

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

— Tony Kushner

I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my…

— CM Punk