Character Quotes · Page 391

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

— John Maynard Keynes

Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

— David Morrissey

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

— Tracy Morgan

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

— Helen Keller

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

— Jim Butcher

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

— James Q. Wilson

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the…

— Joseph Kosinski

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real…

— Aubrey Plaza

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that…

— Adam Smith

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's…

— Eli Roth

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and…

— Natalie Dormer

I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone…

— Bryce Pinkham

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters…

— Jonah Hill

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars.…

— Tom Ford

It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character…

— Winona Ryder

You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters…

— Steven Moffat

“If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have…

— J.L. Witterick

I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all…

— Glenn Close

You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote…this is actually…

— Wednesday 13

When you're in your early 20s, a lot of characters can be one or two dimensional. You want a role to substantiate…

— Tom Hughes

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

— Sophie Okonedo

“The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.”

— John Marsden

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

— Adam Croasdell

A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society

— Juanita Kidd Stout

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

— Jared Leto

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

— Tony Curtis

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

— Cassandra Clare

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

— Kieran Bew

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

— Thomas Hardy

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

— Luke Evans

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and…

— Frances Hesselbein

Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.

— Peter Drucker

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be…

— Dakota Fanning

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”

— Dennis Kimbro