Character Quotes · Page 384

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the…

— Giancarlo Esposito

“A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.”

— Navonne Johns

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

— Marquis de Sade

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It don't matter how HIGHLY qualified you are. What matterz iz, how WELL qualified you are!

— Anonymous

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.

— James K. Polk

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

— Cynthia Stevenson

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where…

— Bill Hader

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what…

— Joseph Addison

I am a character, so that's the problem. There are many, many levels to how I behave. Some people might associate being…

— Marilyn Manson

I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really carry around 'Be the leaf'…

— Janet Varney

I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are…

— Debra Granik

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from…

— Plautus

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the…

— Anna Boden

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than…

— Max Walker

I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's…

— Jeremy Renner

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm…

— Camren Bicondova

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just…

— George Harrar

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves…

— Alan Barth

Whatever God felt about anything, He still feels. Whatever He thought about anyone, He still thinks. Whatever He approved, He still approves.…

— Anonymous

That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts…

— Todd Farmer

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

— Anonymous

“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”

— Renee Fleming

I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

— Laura Dern

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

— John G. Lake

Two things define us: our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.

— Terry Mark

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

— Holland Roden

I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.

— Katharine Ross

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

— Swara Bhaskar

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

— Timothy Miller

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

— John Baldoni

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

— Dennis Prager

“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

— Daniel L Dreisbach