Character Quotes · Page 408

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

— John Dryden

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

— Judy Blume

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

— Paul Kagame

I felt proud that I lent my voice for a legendary character in an animated movie.

— Kunal Kapoor

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

— Lauren Bacall

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

— Lars von Trier

I was drawn to the story of Myeol-mang and Dong-kyeong. I wanted to understand and sympathize with the character Myeol-mang, whose being…

— Seo In-guk

If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a…

— Kerstin Gier

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play…

— Jude Law

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I…

— William Gibson

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.…

— Charles R. Swindoll

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with…

— Brendan Fletcher

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her…

— Melanie Martinez

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit…

— Eric Roberts

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each…

— Barack Obama

One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes…

— L. Ron Hubbard

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character…

— Elie Ducommun

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's…

— Paula Vogel

Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him…

— Charlotte Bronte

For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other…

— Uwem Akpan

“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

— Natalie Dormer

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

— Cal Thomas

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

— Allen W. Wood

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and…

— William Westmoreland

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

— Tim Roth

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

— Walt Disney

Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.

— Allison Janney

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

— Henry Fielding

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

— Dwyane Wade

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.

— Ban Ki-moon

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

— Randy Alcorn

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

— Kevin Kline

I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor.

— Rodrigo Santoro

“If you really want to be different, you'd better keep quiet and be a good person on the inside.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

— Jazmine Sullivan