Character Quotes · Page 316

The character requires so many elements. The only one who could fulfill that was this one person: Elle Fanning.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The very first individual that breaks out in my mind as a top villain is Gorgeous George, and it's hard to beat…

— Roddy Piper

“It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

— Thomas Aquinas

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

— Dominic Cooper

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

— Sam Claflin

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model…

— Henrik Ibsen

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage…

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

“This isn't about simple morality. Not anymore. The world is too big, and there are worlds in worlds. They were always there,…

— Brandon R. Chinn

We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last…

— Bruce Buffer

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

— Anil Sinha

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the…

— Donal Logue

The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has.…

— Mads Mikkelsen

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was…

— Charles Dickens

Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's…

— Charles Dickens

My character [in Ted Bundy] was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried…

— Boti Bliss

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have…

— Paul Auster

“If a man says: “But I realize that my natural endowments are mediocre—shall I then suffer, be ashamed, have an inferiority complex?”…

— Ayn Rand

I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones…

— Larry Wilcox

Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train…

— Akhil Sharma

We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that…

— Jerry Garcia

“Not only is [a mother] entrusted with the guardianship of the intellect and character of the world's statesmen and philosophers, but her…

— C.E. Sargent

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

— Cato the Younger

“Being of sound mind and character goes a lot further than any reputation!”

— Johnny Sprinkle

Patience and understanding are two rarest virtue humans could have today.

— Wazim Shaw

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

— Napoleon Hill

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

— Ambrose Bierce

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

— Samantha Morton

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every day is a blessing in WWE, and I keep reminding myself of that. That's my character.

— Jinder Mahal

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

— Karl Jaspers

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

— Terry Pratchett

I've changed my character 100 per cent; if not, I could never have become a manager.

— Manuel Pellegrini

“Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.”

— Nathan McCall

A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.

— Liao Yiwu

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect…

— Pankaj Tripathi

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

— Michel Foucault