Character Quotes · Page 394

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

— Peter Temple

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

— Nick Denton

Just as Yama is a villain for evil forces, my character in 'Yaman' is also a villain against those who don't follow…

— Vijay Antony

“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

— Joe Biden

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

— Clint Eastwood

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

— Katee Sackhoff

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

— Bill Courtney

It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“To be good citizens, responsible workers and providers, and ethical businesspeople, we need a minimum level of knowledge about the way the…

— Shane Snow

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and…

— John Hawkes

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what…

— Anonymous

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the…

— Radha Mitchell

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

— Anonymous

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to…

— Judy Blume

I'm a character actress trapped in the body of a teenage boy. I'm never going to get the parts that Andrea Martin…

— Cole Escola

Sure, kids want to read whatever is the hot book, and of course they want to read fantasy and any kind of…

— Sofia Quintero

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally…

— C. S. Lewis

“unique to three areas: medical, pharmaceutical and basic research. Medical ethics covers informed consent, doctor-patient confidentiality, and organ donation, to name a…

— Scientific American

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of…

— Daniel Clowes

Fiction that intends to be something other than entertainment has a certain obligation, I think, to convince the reader, every time, that…

— Alice McDermott

With every character you play you're always trying to put facets of yourself into those characters. I think Asher, at the beginning…

— Cameron Monaghan

“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel.…

— P.J. O'Rourke

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear…

— Charles Darwin

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

— Dennis Prager

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

I don't have that X factor; I have to bank on my skills, be true to my character, and hope to be…

— Tiger Shroff

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

— Phyllis Bottome

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

— Jacki Weaver

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

— Riz Ahmed

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

“Corruption is not a moral problem, it is a distribution system and a way of amassing power.”

— Lisa Margonelli

“Good character is all about improving your personal moral values to advance to a more desirable state.”

— Joan Jessalyn Cox

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

— Robert Bolt

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

— John Milton

It isn't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

— William Sidney Porter

“Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.”

— John Keats