Character Quotes · Page 392

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris

I think it's okay to have fun and show some character and some personality.

— Sean Doolittle

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then…

— William H. Macy

I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play.

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

— Democritus

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

— Peter Jackson

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good…

— Dayananda Saraswati

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

— Euripides

Acting. Whenever I am playing a character, I use my real life experiences, which puts me on the line of reliving some…

— Allison Holker

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other…

— Napoleon Hill

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way…

— Rick Remender

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality:…

— Vincent Cassel

First and foremost, stepping into something like a Marvel project is insane. I mean, my character is from 1968, and she's the…

— Emma Dumont

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable…

— Carl Jung

I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to…

— Justin Chatwin

“The two highest levels of influence are achieved when 1) people follow you because of what you've done for them, and 2)…

— Dale Carnegie

Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I'd be playing a…

— Jinkx Monsoon

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of…

— Margaret Atwood

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of…

— Douglass North

I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the…

— Nicholas Sparks

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

— Anonymous

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

— Paulo Coelho

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

— Klaus Kinski

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

— William Hazlitt

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

— Henry Drummond

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

— Harvey Mackay

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

— John Adams

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

— Jason Momoa

I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.

— Natasia Demetriou

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

— Chris Morris

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

— Kevin Spacey

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

— Nicolas Malebranche

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

— Kelly Macdonald

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

— Mo Yan

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

— John le Carre