Character Quotes · Page 401

I don't know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.

— Shefali Shah

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

— Voltaire

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

— Garry Kasparov

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

— Arnold Palmer

I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer

— Alison Lohman

I never wanted to be famous. The characters I do are famous, and that's fine for me.

— Russi Taylor

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

— Bruce Lee

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

— Penn Badgley

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional…

— Anne Marie Miller

I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'

— Denise Di Novi

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage…

— Katha Pollitt

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every…

— Pliny the Younger

I have never been stereotyped in one kind of character. I have been a part of reality shows, events, singing and dancing.…

— Mouni Roy

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from…

— John Ruskin

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a…

— Jenny Offill

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than…

— Duke Ellington

The value we're all raised with, that women don't have the capacity to make moral decisions for themselves, particularly around their sexuality.…

— Melissa Gira Grant

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character…

— Bernard Shaw

For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character.…

— Katie Cassidy

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger…

— Patricia Lockwood

Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…

— Thomas Jefferson

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

— Joseph Joubert

“Life happens once. Get into character, and act the part you were given.”

— Utibe Samuel Mbom

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

— Maria Edgeworth

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is…

— Micah Perks

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

— Ambrose Bierce

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

— Vince Gill

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are…

— Aristotle

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

— Albert Einstein

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

— Cary Elwes

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

— Joel Edgerton

I like to observe people, and I find people pretty fascinating. So I think character is my strength.

— Ruth Jones

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

— Vera Farmiga

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

— George Bernard Shaw

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

— Kirsten Prout

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

— Tricia Helfer