Character Quotes · Page 421

Judging a person doesn't define who they are...But defines who you are.

— Tanya Bianco

“they cannot learn the essential character traits that make them right for your organization.”

— James C. Collins

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

— Corin Nemec

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

— William Petersen

A man should treat his woman the way he would expect his daughter to be treated by her man.

— Amanda Hook

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

— Zig Ziglar

Big or small, if you can do justice to the role then people will always take your character back from the film.

— Prachi Desai

As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a…

— Cress Williams

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and…

— Tom Ford

There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the…

— Elizabeth Marvel

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex…

— Horace

“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is…

— Eamon Dunphy

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had…

— Dan Castellaneta

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However,…

— Colleen McCullough

Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same…

— Michael Eklund

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom…

— Lisa Unger

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much…

— Brady Corbet

“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he…

— Ayn Rand

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with…

— Gustave Flaubert

I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes…

— Rob Zombie

“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is…

— Albert Camus

“But I don't know, in the end, what deserts, chasms, achievements, virtues, and beauties have to do with love. We can love…

— Robert Penn Warren

Now what's important is that they have an attitude. Everybody has a look, but not everybody has cultivated what their stage persona…

— Bruce Vilanch

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

— Jeremy Taylor

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

— Hal Holbrook

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

— Norman Finkelstein

If I'm lucky enough to have the chance to play a character, I'm going to give it my all. Play my position…

— Elena Kampouris

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

— Moliere

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

— John Osborne

Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

— Casey Affleck

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

— Chuck Noll

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

— Peter Jennings

“The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.”

— Chandrashekar

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

— Christopher Hitchens

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you…

— Samuel Johnson

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

— John D. Rockefeller

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

— Horace Bushnell