Character Quotes · Page 418

Learners having character, conviction and commitment are on their way to leadership.

— Tasneem Hameed

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

— Aristotle

There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.

— Lela Loren

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am not playing a villain or a negative role in 'Turram Khan.' My character is that of a simple small-town girl.

— Nushrat Bharucha

There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.

— Jason Statham

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it…

— Mariana Klaveno

Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize…

— Christopher Paolini

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'm really 100 per cent invested in 'Suburgatory' right now - I'm really focused on that and really like taking it all…

— Cheryl Hines

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear…

— Katherine Waterston

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the…

— Alice Hoffman

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I…

— Scott Thompson

This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no…

— Desmond Tutu

Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,…

— Maria Popova

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we…

— Will Durant

None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade,…

— Vin Diesel

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By…

— Francis Schaeffer

The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more…

— Iwan Rheon

It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant…

— Terre Thaemlitz

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation…

— Jane Addams

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

— Brian Greene

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that…

— Richard Pryor

If you want to know someone's mind, listen to their words. If you want to know their heart, watch their actions.

— Anonymous

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not…

— Julian Baggini

“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.”

— Adam Gidwitz

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

— Robert Greene

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

— Mike Colter

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

— Karen Gillan

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

— Fabricio Werdum

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

— Jeremy Piven

If I get a good character, a suitable role, a good producer-director, only then will I do a film.

— Rajinikanth

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

— Billy Casper

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

— Anonymous

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

— Dominique McElligott