Character Quotes · Page 331

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

— Kiara Advani

We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.

— Lambert of Maastricht

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

— Alexa Vega

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

— Tacitus

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

— Anonymous

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or…

— Nicolas Cage

So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I…

— Matthew Quick

Mixed-race blacks have an ethical obligation to identify as black - and interracial couples share a similar moral imperative to inculcate certain…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine…

— Robert Kirkman

You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is…

— James Hillman

I like playing characters that, you know, a couple could go see the movie and one person could love him and one…

— Jonah Hill

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but…

— Thomas a Kempis

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Writing advice is not the product of an equation. "If you do X, then Y will occur" is false in this instance.…

— Chuck Wendig

Groundedness is the quality I always want to be there, even if Im playing a neurotic character, or a woman with a…

— Connie Britton

“I have a deep appreciation for anything that challenges my morality. I tend to wonder which thing or person might overpower my…

— Donna Lynn Hope

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to…

— Mark Twain

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear…

— John Stuart Mill

I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps…

— Cate Blanchett

“Morality is personal. There is no such thing as collective conscience, collective kindness, collective gentleness, collective freedom,’ she planned to argue. ‘To…

— Owen Jones

I am like my character in that, I guess, I like to push buttons a little bit sometimes and maybe I go…

— Chris Pine

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

— Radha Mitchell

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe

“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

— George Eliot

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

— Tom Clancy

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Commercial movies have to end with moral flags flown again and all that.

— Bill Pullman

A person's bad attitude towards you is not a reflection of your character but a reflection of theirs.

— Rashida Rowe

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

— Jeanne Moreau

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.

— Noel Gallagher

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

— William Shakespeare

“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

— John Ruskin

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is…

— Victor Hugo

Playing a character who becomes a Buddhist was a great experience.

— David Thewlis

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice…

— Vladimir Lenin

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

— Sharon Gless