Character Quotes · Page 414

Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And…

— Jessie Buckley

I like nothing more than a character sacrificing himself or herself for the sake of others. That's drama at its finest for…

— Bryan Konietzko

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

— John C. Maxwell

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

— Mike Tyson

“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”

— Sara Sheridan

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

— Mary Parker Follett

Whenever I like a character or a script, I take up the project and leave the rest to the audience.

— Rajkummar Rao

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find…

— China Miéville

“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time…

— Leo Tolstoy

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral…

— Rick Riordan

Action makes a deep connection invariably with the self-character for timely correction, inward reflection, deep introspection and the right selection to ensure…

— Anuj Somany

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and…

— Hannah John-Kamen

So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11;…

— Cindy Sherman

“We have come to see money as the key to pleasure, and pleasure as the key to happiness. This definition of happiness…

— Charles W. Colson

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain…

— Tinashe

“We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice, but the…

— Thomas Paine

“The time came to put Iris Duarte back on the plane. It was a morning flight which made it difficult. I was…

— Charles Bukowski

True Dare Kiss' is a gothic drama about a highly dysfunctional Mancunian family who, after 20 years, reconvene for the funeral of…

— Dervla Kirwan

There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart…

— David Small

“We hate the Empire’s cruelty and violence. How can we claim to be morally superior when we stoop to violence ourselves?” Mon…

— Claudia Gray

I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I like She-Hulk.

— Geoff Johns

'Dragon Ball''s villains were easy to draw: Piccolo, Freeza, Majin Boo.

— Akira Toriyama

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

— Joe Shuster

I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

— Denzel Washington

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.

— Ruba Nadda

I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.

— Choi Woo-shik

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

— Aselin Debison

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

— Benjamin Carson

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

— Rene Dubos

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect…

— George D Boardman

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

— R. C. Sproul

We're at the level of infants in moral responsibility, but with the technological capability of adults

— Lord Rees

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

— Ludwig Borne