Character Quotes · Page 426

I think a lot of Japanese morals are built around what the dead would think of us.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

— Morris Chestnut

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.

— Charles Dickens

Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

— Ranulph Fiennes

For me, in any story that I take, the antagonist is more interesting and multi-dimensional.

— Vetrimaaran

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it.…

— Rose McGowan

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

— Harry Enfield

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is…

— June Jordan

What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's…

— Jake Epstein

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of…

— Mary Collyer

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of…

— R. H. Tawney

“Regardless of the trends we see in the deterioration of morality, respect, and values, wise people will still strive to take the…

— Susan C. Young

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It…

— George Cardinal Pell

If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But…

— Anonymous

It starts with the writing. We have to think of all these characters - we have to treat them all equally. We…

— Cliff Chiang

There wasn't space to mood-up. I think Rose Byrne was just extraordinary. Talk about a character that could be really unsympathetic at…

— Susan Sarandon

Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and…

— Mary-Louise Parker

To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately…

— Mark Hart

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked…

— Annie Baker

I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell…

— Andre Holland

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

— Kelley Armstrong

I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

— Mike Candrea

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

— Joe Flanigan

The character, as written on the page, is just a blueprint for a human being.

— Tom Hiddleston

“Your NAME and your REPUTATION is ALL that you have, so GUARD them. They are worth more than money or gold.”

— L. Michelle

While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.

— Colton Haynes

The one thing you can say about the high road, there doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic on it these…

— Randy Vader

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

— Patrick deWitt

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew…

— Gabourey Sidibe

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

— Plutarch

“Love recognises virtue even in sin, truth in error. … [L]ove is free, universal, in its nature[.]”

— Ludwig Feuerbach

The people you walk with will tell everybody who you are because show me your friend and I will show you your…

— Respect

Kindness is not a virtue when you sacrifice the truth to achieve it.

— Drew Istotle

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor