Character Quotes · Page 340

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.

— T. Harv Eker

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

— Cam Gigandet

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

— Bergen Evans

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this…

— Patrick Warburton

“How you react doesn’t tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is…

— Shannon L. Alder

“I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.”

— Dennis Lehane

Being in a long-running series is great because it gives you so many opportunities - but at the same time it's a…

— Tom Payne

It would upset me if someone watching a show was thinking about me, Milo, as an individual at the supermarket or at…

— Milo Ventimiglia

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all…

— Lydia M. Child

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to…

— Jeremy Corbyn

It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living,…

— John Stuart Mill

I think all human beings can surprise themselves when they are in situations where they are tested. That's when you see your…

— Alesha Dixon

If I am part of a movie, the character I handle should make sense to me at first and should also be…

— Shamna Kasim

I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into…

— Karan Singh Grover

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom…

— Ayn Rand

If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't…

— Laura Benanti

“Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well…

— John Adams

I was attached to star in a project that was going to be an unbelievable character piece, to be showcased all over…

— Jonathan Keltz

There's a point I can get to where I start writing character and then through the dialogue, after all of this preparation,…

— Charlie Kaufman

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The…

— John Burroughs

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food. So I wanted to create a sitcom and…

— Felicia Day

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

— August Alsina

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

— Charles Dickens

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

— John Ruskin

In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.

— Song Hye-kyo

I was really attracted to doing 'Game of Thrones' because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

— Ellie Kendrick

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.”

— Alfa

“When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

I think when you have a character as richly drawn, I suppose then there are subconscious, mental notes that you've made.

— Cate Blanchett

“Here in the world, each human frailty Provides occasion for philosophy, And that is virtue's noblest exercise;”

— Molière

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.

— Timothy West

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

— Alan Arkin

Some people don't get it, but I think there's something fascinating about a character who's obsessed with power.

— Naomi Ackie