Character Quotes · Page 388

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

— Judith Martin

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

— Paulette Jiles

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

“but maybe this was just how character formed: by groping whims we had no choice afterward but to commit to as ourselves.”

— Ben Blum

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

— Michel de Montaigne

Essaying different characters on screen and doing justice to each role entails its own set of research and hard work.

— Tridha Choudhury

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation…

— Isaac Watts

When I got the script for 'The Art of Seduction,' I realised I'd never been in a comedy, so I decided to…

— Son Ye-jin

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's…

— Zooey Deschanel

I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into…

— Jennifer Sky

A person of strong character is willing to be modest,humble & true to self. He strives to remain committed to his endeavour…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of…

— Cassandra Clare

We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in…

— Pankaj Mishra

“True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Morality is a just a shadow of right action. Right action isn’t the highest degree of morality any more than agapè is…

— Jed McKenna

“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened,…

— Charlotte Mason

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an…

— Anthony Burgess

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out…

— John Stuart Mill

I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to…

— Colin Farrell

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in…

— Joseph Addison

I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I…

— Miles Teller

In no other genre can you be believable as an immortal character. I love sci-fi for that, so yeah - I'm a…

— Paterson Joseph

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own…

— Sonia Rykiel

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

— Jon Heder

I dated a guy who played bad guys in movies all the time, and I think he was just a bad guy.

— Jennifer Coolidge

There is some kind of weird idea people have, that morals are objective truths

— Anonymous

“And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.”

— Lawrence Durrell

Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much.

— Rhianna Pratchett

There are many factors that make a serial hit or flop, but what is important is the character.

— Hiten Tejwani

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

— Mona Eltahawy

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

— Agnes Moorehead

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

— Jodi Picoult

Why does 'I Love Lucy' still make people laugh? Because she's a specific character who has real reactions.

— Martin Short

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

— Gautama Buddha

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

— Francis Quarles

Honestly, playing negative roles is much more fun, because there are no restrictions.

— Vatsal Sheth

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers