Character Quotes · Page 298

If you end up growing a character too quickly, you don't have anywhere to go after that point.

— Ray Fisher

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

— Russell Hornsby

One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

— Samuel Butler

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

— Mark Twain

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

— Livy

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

— Seth Gordon

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

— Christopher Walken

I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are…

— Joaquin Phoenix

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because…

— Michael Shermer

Not only has wilderness been a force in molding our character as a people, but its influence continues, and will, if we…

— Sigurd F. Olson

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of my favorite comedy has always been of the grounded variety. Even 'MacGruber.' I think that MacGruber is a really grounded…

— Adam Scott

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the…

— Howard Moskowitz

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Many of my short fictions use theatre as a metaphor for situations in which characters find themselves estranged from the larger, uncontrollable…

— Norman Lock

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make…

— Michael Moorcock

The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for…

— Paul Feyerabend

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to…

— Walter Anderson

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action...If we do not act,…

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1967

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be…

— Marya Hornbacher

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If something bad smells in the basement, it will eventually make its way to the attic.”

— Anthony Liccione

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

— John Chrysostom

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price…

— Omari Hardwick

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

— Mia Wasikowska

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

— Austin O'Malley

Movies made back in the day would have a single scene that defined what the character was all about.

— Zayed Khan

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

— John Hurt

There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.

— Bob Coy

Now a days beauty is doesn't matter because some of them they like their good character,,not physical attraction..

— Mariane Corbito

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

— Taryn Manning

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

— Claude Lelouch

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

“Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986”

— Anonymous

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

— Richard M. Nixon

My character was in 'Raya and the Last Dragon' for a second, but that's a win for all trans-kind.

— Patti Harrison