Character Quotes · Page 416

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

— Madame de Stael

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

— Rumi

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

— Christopher Walken

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

— Anonymous

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

— Gertrude Atherton

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

— Ben Mendelsohn

“IN GOD’S STRATEGY FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING, CHARACTER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN INTELLIGENCE.”

— Anonymous

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

— Chuck Todd

I feel like a lot of my work on stage, I've gotten to play a wider range of characters than I have…

— Zoe Kazan

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, 'I will do anything.' It's a certain type of personality that in…

— Mark Pellegrino

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to…

— Brion James

You have the wookie character, which is one of the biggest aliens in 'Defiance.' These guys are just walking about with these…

— Tony Curran

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the…

— Michael Josephson

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know…

— Piper Perabo

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of…

— Plutarch

“and self-responsibility can only occur where the child is surrounded with moral behavior and allowed to grow her own understanding of the…

— Kelly Bryson

Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom…

— Chuck Wendig

Maybe there is a sort of a sweet middle ground there, where you can do something with something with like 20 to…

— Duncan Jones

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the…

— Joe Ehrmann

History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that's penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going…

— Scott D. Anthony

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then…

— Gary Shteyngart

“...if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought…

— Mohammed Naseehu Ali

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

— Bruce Boxleitner

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

— Dennis Prager

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

— Juliette Lewis

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

— James Earl Jones

If I weren’t getting paid or didn’t have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit…

— Hugh Jackman

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

— Mae West

“Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.”

— K. Howard Joslin

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character.

— Pericles

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers

“But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.”

— Joe Queenan

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

A lot of the time you find that elements of a character are brought out by the actors playing them.

— John de Lancie

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

— Brady Corbet

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

— Augustus Hare

Avram is a character. Sitting in team meetings, you realise what a positive person and manager he is.

— Wayne Bridge