Character Quotes · Page 320

Some people don't get it, but I think there's something fascinating about a character who's obsessed with power.

— Naomi Ackie

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

— Alan Arkin

If you can't be committed to another person, at least be committed to the concept of character and don't cheat.

— Jerry Springer

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

— Cate Blanchett

“Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;”

— Molière

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a…

— Lilith Saintcrow

“The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes.…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The division needs a guy like me. It's a bunch of good guys, and I'm the only bad guy in the division.…

— Colby Covington

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme…

— Chris Cleave

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to…

— Christopher McQuarrie

With Richard Splett, he's like the only character on 'Veep' that has no angle. He's guileless. He also believes in the power…

— Sam Richardson

All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put…

— Wheeler McMillen

I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out…

— Michael Eklund

I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never…

— Adolf Hitler

“The chief obstacle is that we are quick to be satisfied with ourselves. If we find someone to call us good men,…

— Marcus Aurelius

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are…

— Gary Cole

“Not many people can imagine a president of the Parlement of Aix—it is a species of beast of which people have often…

— Marquis de Sade

“If they’re beautiful I don’t much mind if they’re not true. It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your…

— William Somerset Maugham

My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost…

— Hannah More

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of…

— Aaron Rodgers

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

— Andy Stanley

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

— James Allen

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

— Lee Corso

People will Hate you, Break you, Rate you, Shake you down, but how strong you stand makes you who you really are.

— Kings

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

— Stephen Hillenburg

It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome…

— Kyle Cassie

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

— Jonathan Swift

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

— Phyllis Bottome

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

— Heinrich Heine

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

— Kelly Lynch

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

— Peter Mayhew

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

— Erica Jong

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after…

— Gary D. Schmidt

People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.

— Natalie Portman

The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.

— Blaise Pascal