Character Quotes · Page 357

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

— Roop Durgapal

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

— Radhika Pandit

You get more time to see the growth of a character in a series, there's no scope for that in films.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's…

— Frank Deford

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

— Mohanlal

I like living with a character for a really long time and what can open up with that.

— Paula Malcomson

“I’ve lowered my character with a great deal of unwholesome reading material.”

— Lisa Kleypas

It's important that people realize that, with what we do, we aren't necessarily the ones saying what's being said. It's a character…

— Ron Mael

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it…

— Bertrand Russell

“Morality is inseparable from freedom. Only free conduct is moral conduct. By negating freedom, and thus the possibility of choice, a dictatorship…

— Alija Izetbegović

I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter…

— Angad Bedi

In the end, being Mrs Imran Khan couldn't protect me. Even the divorce announcement couldn't stop the hate campaign waged in the…

— Reham Khan

Im always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. Thats how I roll.

— Ariel Winter

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success…

— Samuel Johnson

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired…

— Patrick Heusinger

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and…

— Plautus

“Stoic ethics is a species of eudaimonism. Its central, organizing concern is about what we ought to do or be to live…

— Lawrence C. Becker

I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many…

— T.C. Boyle

You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always…

— Ed Helms

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary…

— Sophie Barthes

I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was…

— Julie Warner

Shooting for a TV show is not very different from shooting for a movie. We work for long hours in both the…

— Nikitin Dheer

“Two very bad things are ill-will and unbelief, both of which are contrary to righteousness; for ill-will is opposed to charity, and…

— Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.

— Madeline Brewer

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

— Mitt Romney

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

— John Webster

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

— Steve Buscemi

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

— J. C. Watts

“Show me a man without vice and I'll show you one without virtue!”

— Pittacus Lore

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

— Cullen Murphy

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

— Kevin Feige

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

— David Mamet

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

— Alexander Pope

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

— Daniella Alonso

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

— Gwendoline Christie