Character Quotes · Page 339

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

— Tim Daly

I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.

— Harland Williams

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

— Garrett Hardin

I always just felt more comfortable just kind of hiding behind a character than being myself onstage.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

— Shigesato Itoi

The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses.

— Arthur Herzog

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never…

— Charles Dickens

I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger…

— Simon Mignolet

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to BE another person and create what it would…

— Jason Dohring

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:…

— Samuel Johnson

I find 'True Grit' to be one of the very best American novels: It is a rousing adventure story and deeply perceptive…

— George Pelecanos

I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but…

— Bobby Cannavale

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to…

— Socrates

Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and…

— Peter Brook

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must…

— Joseph Addison

Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people…

— Vladimir Putin

So far as the personality is still potential, it can be called transcendent, and so far as it is unconscious, it is…

— Carl Jung

A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into…

— Fady Joudah

When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I…

— Emma Watson

“An apparent misfortune of man is that neither good nor evil is an agency itself; both are equally passive choices. Man himself…

— Raheel Farooq

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

— Penn Jillette

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

— Johnny Carson

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and…

— Lauren Bowles

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

— Derwin L. Gray

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

— Jessica Capshaw

“Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.”

— Peter Prange

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

— Bill Lawrence

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

— Lemuel K Washburn

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.

— Danny Pintauro

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

— Thomas Browne

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

— Holland Taylor

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

— W. Somerset Maugham