Character Quotes · Page 324

I'd love to play Venom. I'm a huge 'Spider-Man' fan, and Venom was the character that drew me into the comics.

— Sheamus

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

— Anonymous

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

— Rhys Darby

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

— Travis Beacham

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

— Tacitus

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

— Wilhelm Wundt

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

— Robert Redford

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I…

— Shonda Rhimes

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a…

— John C. Reilly

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

— Tilda Swinton

Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the…

— Yiyun Li

Be respectable, but be unique. Stand up for yourself, but remember to be kind. Forget the insults but always remember the compliments.

— Abhishek Tiwari

My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no…

— Sarah Shahi

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can…

— Frederick The Great

“Does a just society seek to promote the virtue of its citizens? Or should law be neutral toward competing conceptions of virtue,…

— Anonymous

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the…

— John Mayer

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or…

— Dalai Lama

Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a…

— Dan Brown

Coming from the theater, you know what your given circumstances are every night and who your character is. You're reenacting this one…

— Andrew Rannells

Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,…

— Philip Kitcher

Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable.…

— Jeremy Irvine

Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The…

— Bayard Rustin

Very rarely have I worked with a director where we've been at odds. And by the time you've actually talked to somebody…

— Julianne Moore

The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality.

— Yoko Taro

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

— Spike Jonze

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

— Socrates

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

— Grenville Kleiser

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

— Mindy Kaling

Sometimes a person's personality can really replace their appearance.

— Anonymous

“The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

— Lee Martin

I love villainous characters; they are so exciting to play. They are so different and challenging.

— Vivek Oberoi

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

TV is done so quickly that you really don't have time to develop the character fully.

— Nick Searcy

“Virtue alone is happiness; all else Is else, and without praise.”

— Tiruvalluvar

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

— Dick Francis

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.”

— Ben Shapiro

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

— Kirsten Dunst

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

— Alex Carey