Character Quotes · Page 347

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

— Grimes

You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.

— Sophie Marceau

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

— George Chapman

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

— Vernon Howard

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

— Richard Steele

I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already…

— Roxanne McKee

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's…

— Devon Bostick

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel…

— Tom Hiddleston

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You…

— Martha Plimpton

Hathoda Tyagi is such a strong character despite no dialogues and expression. He's the most difficult to break. It would've been interesting…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

— Theodore Dalrymple

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You…

— Vikram Seth

For me, I have having the time of my life playing this character [Louis Litt]. At times, it's unbelievably challenging and scary,…

— Rick Hoffman

I love Renée Zellweger, she can do no wrong in my eyes. I relate to every character she embodies, because she has…

— Katie Holmes

No one has to be taught to trust in themselves. No one has to be taught that what you experience inside yourself…

— Michael Horton

Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent…

— Samuel Smiles

Actors sometimes say they can't do something because their character would never do that. The director Suri Krishnamma once told me he…

— Tara Fitzgerald

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do…

— Shanola Hampton

“Once you recognize what is happening, you have a moral obligation to become involved. Perhaps all you can do is tell others,…

— Dr. Stanley Monteith

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience,…

— Chauncey Wright

Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.…

— Arthur Rubinstein

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

— Oliver Goldsmith

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

— Margaret Atwood

The aim of the receipts may be virtue, sin, much closer to the work you do

— Mak_786

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

— Tennessee Williams

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

— Brian Tracy

If one evil eats at the moral fiber of human life in this world that could be termed as Mother of Evils,…

— T Joseph Benziger

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with.

— Goldust

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

— Mahima Chaudhry

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

— Anonymous

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do…

— Kevin Hart

“There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules…

— Daniel Kemp