Character Quotes · Page 326

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

— Sam Harris

It's pretty cool to watch a film where the character barely says anything but you can see exactly what he's thinking.

— Noah Schnapp

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

— Parvathy

We're very sure to stay in character, to experience the Sharknado as though it was real. That's what acting is.

— Ian Ziering

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

— James Montgomery Boice

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

— Sam Riley

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should…

— Tana French

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think…

— Anne Lamott

You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character…

— Rick Riordan

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door…

— Liam Neeson

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors…

— David Suchet

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such…

— Bridget Regan

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the…

— Thomas Jefferson

There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I…

— Nia Long

Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to…

— Dorothea Brande

The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy…

— Wendell Berry

I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing…

— Madonna Ciccone

[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The challenge CEOs will face three to five years from now is the same one that they face today. That is engagement.…

— Don Yaeger

We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit.…

— Doug Dorst

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

— John Ortberg

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

— Saadi

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

— Jane Seymour

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

— Cary Elwes

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

— Grimes

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

— C. S. Lewis

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

— Vernon Howard

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

— Richard Steele

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

— Oliver Goldsmith

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

— Margaret Atwood