Character Quotes · Page 314

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never…

— Charles Dickens

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

— Penn Jillette

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

— Johnny Carson

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and…

— Lauren Bowles

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

— Derwin L. Gray

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

— Jessica Capshaw

My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but…

— Li Bingbing

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

— Kerry Washington

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life…

— Carl Hiaasen

You want people to go see it by the hoards. And for there to be talk of the possibility of continuing the…

— Will Packer

Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to…

— Oswald Chambers

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have…

— Topher Grace

Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked…

— Gaby Hoffmann

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over.…

— Margaret Mahy

I think of myself as a character actress, and Karen's just one of the characters I've gotten to play, but I feel…

— Megan Mullally

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,…

— C. S. Lewis

“But the paradox of cycling is that if you are riding well then you are kept from your failings as a human…

— Charly Wegelius

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with…

— Charles Spurgeon

“‎"The indictment [the Western/modern question, 'Why be moral?'] also issued from a gross underrating of the 'moral' force that was regarded within…

— Wael B. Hallaq

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…

— Edward Gibbon

I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

So far, yes, I have been doing only commercial films because those are the kind of films that came my way. Those…

— Sonakshi Sinha

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

— Thomas Browne

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

— Holland Taylor

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

— Bill Lawrence

“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.”

— Peter Prange

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

— Danny Pintauro

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

— Lemuel K Washburn

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

— T. Harv Eker

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

— Cam Gigandet

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

— Bergen Evans

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

I will play different characters and do whatever excites me. I won't stick to one medium and as they say, never say…

— Radhika Madan

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

— Henry Steele Commager