Character Quotes · Page 328

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

— Martial

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

— George Bernard Shaw

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

— Lucille Kallen

I personally don't like family dramas, but don't mind playing a mother or a homemaker, provided that character has an identity.

— Richa Pallod

Aamir Khan told me that I was doing Sameer's character all wrong in Dil Chahta Hai

— Saif Ali Khan

“... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.”

— Umberto Eco

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

— Dennis Franz

Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.

— Maxine Peake

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that…

— Mary Stuart Masterson

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is…

— Anthony Burgess

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul…

— Luiz Bolognesi

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things.…

— Herbert Simon

For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving…

— Walter Mason Camp

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about…

— Casper Crump

When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do…

— Alec Monopoly

I like films about people who figured out what they believed and had the guts to act on it in a way…

— Robert S. Kaplan

Yeah, it’s really great. I mean, the clonesbians—you know, I have to say, I feel sometimes that fiction can reflect reality and…

— Evelyne Brochu

When I do an Asian character or an Asian voice I'm doing one because that's my heritage and my family and where…

— Margaret Cho

You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become…

— Ken Kesey

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another…

— Russell Smith

I think, when people so strongly associate an actor with a character they play - but the main feeling is I feel…

— Liza Weil

Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius inan essentially common personis detestable. It spoils the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

I would be glad to share the screen with anyone as long as I love my character and the story.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

— Ralph W Sockman

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

— Clark Gregg

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

— Owen Feltham

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

— Horace Bushnell

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

— John Cazale

Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.

— Mary Wiseman

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall…

— Anne Lamott

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

— Bertrand Russell

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

— Katherine Langford

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

— John Stuart Mill

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

— Oscar Levant

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my…

— Kartik Aaryan

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

— Hans F. Sennholz

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

— John C. Maxwell