Character Quotes · Page 333

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Your respect for people does not mean you need them This is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.”

— Waciny Laredj

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not…

— Stephen Moore

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

— Noah Baumbach

The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.

— Sudha Chandran

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the…

— Joss Whedon

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

— Rooney Mara

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 'Shirin Farhad' I play the character of a Parsi woman. Though I was born a Parsi, in a Parsi family, I…

— Farah Khan

To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the…

— Elliott Yamin

I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight…

— Joseph D. Pistone

Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws,…

— Pat Buchanan

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens.…

— Scott Michael Foster

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their…

— Felicia Day

“Money is not the “evil” to be removed from an otherwise “good” production, but the manifestation (today becoming increasingly immaterial) of the…

— Anonymous

When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit;…

— Louis Farrakhan

A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision…

— Christopher Hitchens

Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really,…

— Ursula Vernon

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book…

— Po Bronson

We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own…

— David Bowie

When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera…

— Doug Jones

“True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.”

— John Wesley

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

— Anne Hathaway

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

— Alan Watts

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

— Robert D. Kaplan

Three things define you. Your words, your actions and your attitude.

— Anil Sinha

The person I've worked with most is Morena Baccarin, and from her, I've learned to stand up for your character.

— Morgan Saylor

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a…

— Julia McNair Wright

“The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.”

— John Cheever

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

— Paul Tillich

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

— Charles Caleb Colton

“There are 26 characters in the alphabet, and what characters they are! Especially Q.”

— Jarod Kintz

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.

— Pope Pius XII

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

— Anton Yelchin

My character in 'Gavin & Stacey' wouldn't work out, so luckily I don't have to either.

— Joanna Page

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

— Rupert Sanders

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

— Tracie Thoms