Character Quotes · Page 338

“A man never discloses his character so clearly as when he descibes another's”

— Jean Paul Richter

“THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A PERSON IN SEEN WHEN HE/SHE IS ALONE...”

— VENKATA NAVEEN KASAGANA

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“The morals of societies are defined by how they treat a strange woman.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

— Charles de Gaulle

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

— Elizabeth Moon

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

— Audrey Tautou

It is easier to change rivers and mountains than human character.

— Vikrant Parsai

“That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has…

— Emily Raboteau

Being a TV actor is quite different from being a movie star, and I always try and highlight my character. It is…

— Divyanka Tripathi

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction…

— Aldous Huxley

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation…

— Henry Ward Beecher

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have…

— Daniel Bruhl

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.…

— Lord Acton

[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as…

— Harry Shearer

cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,…

— Immanuel Kant

There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic…

— Robert Jay Lifton

“In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness,…

— George Sand

“The good are rewarded morally, not physically; their own virtues, honours, mental peace, and satisfaction are ample compensation for their goodness. Confucius,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

You go back to the Baldur's Gate days, we literally had 32-pixel characters strutting across the screen, and we'd have a couple…

— Greg Zeschuk

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters;…

— Rush Limbaugh

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's…

— Eddie Redmayne

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites…

— Marquis de Sade

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

— River Phoenix

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

— Jefferson Mays

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

— Dave East

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

— Elizabeth Montagu

This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

— Paul Raci

I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

— Barry Sloane

When I look back at old footage of me back in the early '90s, it almost looks like a cartoon character, or…

— Chesney Hawkes

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

— John Wooden

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.

— Hansika Motwani

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

— Vijay Sethupathi

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

— Reggie Miller

“Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.”

— Fennel Hudson

My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

— Andrea Barber