Character Quotes · Page 371

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

— Sidney Sheldon

A man with character strengths is all that a woman not only admires, but feels deep respect for.

— Senora Roy

As long as I give my 100 percent to my character and I feel connected to it, I am happy.

— Sunny Singh

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

— Immanuel Kant

The danger with playing someone tough is that the character can become two-dimensional and mean and nobody likes her.

— Rebecca Mader

I'm not Negan from 'The Walking Dead.' I'm not a character. I'm a human being.

— Tom Sandoval

It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy…

— Kirsten Dunst

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

— Confucius

You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is…

— Juliette Binoche

I'm always open to not necessarily to do leading roles because I want to do roles that are the best, character role.…

— Josh Hutcherson

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any…

— Samuel Johnson

Acting didn't solve much! If it did, I would have ended up much less crazy than I am today, but I'm not.…

— Dustin Hoffman

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is…

— James Arthur Ray

When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of…

— Will Ferrell

For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows…

— Mark Waid

“price. There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us…

— Terry Goodkind

I was lucky I had a mom who had seen it all. From seeing my grandfather march in the Civil Rights era,…

— Malcolm Brogdon

“My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred…

— Anthony Burgess

“Each person possesses and inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason,…

— John Rawls

[10 Things I Hate About You] keeps popping up, and it's become a go-to film specifically for adolescent girls who are trying…

— David Krumholtz

Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational…

— Anonymous

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

— Saqib Saleem

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

— Juvenal

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

— Mark Twain

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

— Tony Bellew

“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,”

— Christina Baker Kline

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

— Anthony Hopkins

“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.”

— Nicole Guillaume

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

— Rupert Sanders

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

— Spike Lee

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

— Veronica Roth

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

— Demi Moore

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

No Person Ever Ended Its Eyesight By Looking On The Bright Side...

— Pacifiersucker