Character Quotes · Page 381

If love is the plot, and I declare action. I will not sit behind the camera, waiting for you to get into…

— Sabs Kridrec

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what…

— Lucy Hale

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

— Rush Limbaugh

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

— J. C. Ryle

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

— Radhika Apte

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

— Aaron Gillespie

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

— Erwin McManus

My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.

— Lech Walesa

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

— Jane Espenson

I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script…

— Grant Bowler

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my…

— Neil Simon

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on…

— Ian Svenonius

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still…

— Michael Welch

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened…

— Khalil Gibran

It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what…

— Aaron Ashmore

The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people…

— Geena Davis

One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could…

— Brian Azzarello

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even…

— Patrick Vieira

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's…

— Colm Meaney

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too…

— Timothy Leary

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie.…

— Abu Hurairah

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence…

— Joseph Heller

The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of…

— Laozi

Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't…

— Criss Jami

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

— John Travolta

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

— Terry Goodkind

I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

— Amy Heckerling

“If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations.”

— Dean Koontz

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

— Will Smith

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

— Willa Cather

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

— Corey Hawkins

Iron Man is my most favorite human, character, person in the world.

— Lana Condor

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

— Lloyd Alexander

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

— Rajkummar Rao

I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.

— Kendrick Sampson

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

— William Shakespeare

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

Did I fall in love with you or the character you were playing ??

— Ritu Ghatourey

In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

— Sheila Hancock