Character Quotes · Page 296

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

— David Mamet

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

— Kevin Feige

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

— Gwendoline Christie

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

— William J. H. Boetcker

You attract people by the qualities you display. You keep them by the qualities you possess.

— Babloo

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— Alexander Pope

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

— Daniella Alonso

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and…

— Gerald F. Lieberman

Episodic TV is notoriously brutal because just when you think 'I've got this, I know this character' you can pick up the…

— Zawe Ashton

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind…

— Jesmyn Ward

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes, you don't know what's going to happen to your character until the night before you shoot the scene. So, sometimes, you…

— Norbert Leo Butz

“What I have observed of the pond is no less true in ethics. ... Such a rule ... draws lines through the…

— Thoreau

“The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act…

— Robert A. Nisbet

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or…

— Will Patton

“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end…

— Charlotte Bronte

I've gone up two suit sizes. The character I'm playing, he's strong, I can say that much. I've changed my physique a…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated…

— Henry Giroux

I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many…

— Geena Davis

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk…

— Jason Segel

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;…

— Patrick Henry

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be…

— Kate Bernheimer

A lot of character writing for gay people is talking about trauma. It's nice to - instead of playing trauma - get…

— E. R. Fightmaster

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

— Aristotle

“I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.”

— Julie Orringer

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

— Edward Gibbon

My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

— Michael Biehn

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.

— Teresa of Avila

Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.

— Kazuo Koike

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

— Lady Randolph Churchill

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

— William Hazlitt

“The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu”

— Thomas Cathcart

The story of 'Lalpan Bibi' impressed me and my character also. It has all the ingredients of a great commercial masala movie.

— Mukesh Tiwari

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

— Anonymous

Good looks should never become a part of your internal character.

— Hrithik Roshan