Character Quotes · Page 345

“Never let your character say "how could it get any worse"…it always does.”

— Kimi Alexandre

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character…

— Shirley MacLaine

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

— Phillips Brooks

Your attitude is a multitude of aptitude and rectitude which decides your altitude in plenitude.

— Vikrant Parsai

When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.

— Jasmin Bhasin

I am struck by the wild character of this land and, as the Kazak herders often do, I have the urge to…

— Tim Cope

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

— Josh McDermitt

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her…

— Milla Jovovich

I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam…

— Douglas Booth

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. For me, television is where it's at. You get to play…

— Paula Malcomson

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the…

— Noam Chomsky

“Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.”

— Jerry Bridges

“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of…

— Michael Boatman

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just…

— Aaron Paul

In 'The Trip,' I play the character named Ananya Makhija, a Delhi girl who wants to get married. This is a different…

— Shweta Tripathi

The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the…

— Hans von Seeckt

“Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

One of my favorite scenes in Fellini is the ecclesiastical fashion show in Roma, and the end of 8 ½, when all…

— Matt Tyrnauer

I looked at all friends, and did not find a better friend than safeguarding the tongue. I thought about all the dresses…

— Umer Ibn Al Khatta (may Allah Be Pleased With Him

The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I don’t find it fun watching someone trying to be sexy. It’s whack. I’m trying to just show my true personality, and…

— Nicki Minaj

“Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I…

— John Rawls

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

— Kirsten Dunst

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

— Alex Carey

“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.”

— Ben Shapiro

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but…

— Katherine Paterson

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

— Ally Carter

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

— Elie Saab

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

— Brad Falchuk

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

— Conrad Hilton

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

— Jennifer Hale

Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.

— Frank Shamrock

Honestly, being a liar or user is nothing to be proud of. If you think it is your morals are questionable.

— Sonya Parker

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

— Elif Batuman

“A conversa impregnada de vaidade e o pretensiosismo são raramente compatíveis com a virtude.”

— Confucius

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson