Character Quotes · Page 367

Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

— James Ivory

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

— G. Willow Wilson

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

— Brady Corbet

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.

— Ronald Reagan

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

— Monica Keena

I want to explore myself and do various characters. That's what I understand and that's what gives me happiness.

— Sunil Grover

Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

For why / Should every creature drink but I, / Why, man of morals, tell me why?

— Abraham Cowley

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based…

— William Jackson

They say so much about who a person is, who a character is. And usually in the past in sketch stuff, I…

— Cole Escola

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and…

— Joseph Addison

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go…

— Jim Parsons

The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not…

— Erica Jong

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me.…

— Powers Boothe

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic…

— Charles Dickens

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were…

— Charles Dickens

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera,…

— Denis Diderot

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a…

— Osric Chau

What was Freddie like then? Alongside the showman, he was a rather shy introvert. But if the attention was focused on him,…

— Roger Taylor

“But do not let us go too fast here. The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God…

— C.S. Lewis

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Morals and Ethics Values Express the manner in which the organization adopts universal values of morals, personal ethics and professional ethics. Social…

— Shmaya David

Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive.

— Jeff Cooper

If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

— Bae Doona

Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.

— Robert H. Shaffer

Thank goodness for me, 'Smallville''s Lois Lane is younger, so there's a little bit of play with the character.

— Erica Durance

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

— Madame de Stael

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

— Joan Van Ark

True caliber of a man could easily be known by what he says about others, not by what other say about him.

— Yasmine Tariq

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.

— John Maynard Keynes

“Such a better world it would be if we all had the morals of a Golden Retriever; butt sniffing notwithstanding.”

— A.A. Bell

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

— Dallas Willard

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

— Vijay Antony

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

— Amber Heard

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

— Lynn Nottage

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte