Character Quotes · Page 366

Tolerance Should Really Be Only A Temporary Attitude... It Must Lead To Recognition.

— Pacifiersucker

To admit mistake is courage and virtue of strong character, while to rue and look for an excuse reflects weak personality.

— Anil Sinha

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

— E. W. Howe

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

— David Nevins

There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

— Robert Pattinson

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

— Martin Landau

I am thankful for all difficult people in my life, they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.

— Arlene Enego

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way,…

— Michael Ian Black

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange…

— Haruki Murakami

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character…

— William James

We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over…

— Jeph Loeb

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city…

— Karen Kijewski

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about…

— Rowan Atkinson

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From…

— Ezra Taft Benson

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you…

— Sissy Spacek

Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and…

— Benjamin Tucker

Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a…

— Alan Cumming

It's one of the reasons why Spider-Man: Homecoming is so exciting. Because it's a new genre for us, a new character, the…

— Kevin Feige

When 'Malcolm in the Middle' was over, I was looking for a drama more than a comedy...but if it was a comedy…

— Bryan Cranston

Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a…

— Anonymous

Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that…

— Ali Sina

In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us…

— Junot Diaz

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

— Sydney Smith

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

— Patricia Norris

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it's the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that…

— Chris Chibnall

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

— Charles Spurgeon

Morality doesnt suit itself when one human being is obeying the laws of morality

— Loferson Odele

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

— Confucius

“Remember, adversity does not necessarily build character in a man—but it does reveal it.”

— Rick Johnson

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

— Kunal Nayyar

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

— Marcel Proust

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.

— Jonathan Swift