Character Quotes · Page 415

“It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.”

— Lola Dodge

“Typically in a world that has shunned goodness and morals, the villain is the hero.”

— J.C. Wickhart

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

— Karol G

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

— Peter Sarsgaard

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

— Henry Cavill

The most important in movie is having a bad character; Not the Hero and the Heroine

— Anonymous

No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable.

— Nathaniel Bronner Jr

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look…

— Liberty Ross

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The…

— Clement Greenberg

I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

“Of all the virtues we can learn no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly…

— Xavier Gens

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your…

— Laurence Fishburne

Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral…

— Annie Besant

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Ages of prolonged uncertainty, while they are compatible with the highest degree of saintliness in a few, are inimical to the prosaic…

— Bertrand Russell

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.…

— Roald Dahl

“It is realistic rather than cynical to observe that in a fallen world there are degrees of virtue in relation to what…

— Os Guinness

“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director…

— Vin Diesel

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human…

— Robert B. Louden

“Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.”

— Steven Ramirez

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

— Jonathan Maberry

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

— Garrett Hardin

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

— James Jones

It is not only easier to find fault with another person than to examine one's own character, it is also tempting.

— Martin Dansky

Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

— Judy Greer

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the…

— John Terry

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

— Bret Stephens

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

— Ellen Hopkins

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

— Douglas William Jerrold

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual…

— Tina Fey

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

— H. L. Mencken