Character Quotes · Page 406

My character from 'Boys Over Flowers' enjoyed being in love; he was romantic and smooth.

— Kim Bum

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

— J. C. Ryle

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate…

— Joseph Morgan

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

— Charles Frazier

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

— Max Anders

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you're playing a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like…

— Colm Meaney

In some ways, it's easier to be the lead. Week after week, scene after scene, the rhythms of filming force you to…

— Corey Stoll

Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to…

— Doug Liman

“As we step into the character’s shoes we experience his or her motivations — including the search for rewards of the tribe,…

— Nir Eyal

I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do.…

— Lisa Jewell

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say…

— Louis Garrel

No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what…

— Dabney Coleman

Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not…

— Peter Orner

“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share…

— Winston Churchill

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of…

— Glenn Greenwald

“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today…

— Abhijit Naskar

For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like…

— Garth Ennis

There was never a moment where I was intentionally cribbing from another actor. More so, I grew up watching other actors design…

— Cameron Monaghan

“Convicções profundas só as têm as criaturas superficiais. Os que não reparam para as coisas quase que as veem apenas para não…

— Fernando Pessoa

I longed for people to forget Parvathy and remember my character. That has finally happened in Malayalam.

— Parvathy

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

Condemnation campaigns can and do work, even in conditions where one thinks there are no morals left.

— Zeynep Tufekci

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

— Frank Vincent

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

— Eric Hoffer

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

— Anne Lamott

“Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.”

— Hugh B. Brown

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

— Vittorio Grigolo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

— Thomas John Barnardo

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

— Anonymous

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

— Epictetus

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

— Bertrand Russell

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

— Anushka Shetty