Character Quotes · Page 430

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

— Sara Sheridan

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

— Jethro Tull

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

— John Cariani

“In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.”

— Alain de Benoist

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

— Karen Marie Moning

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

— Margaret Oliphant

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.

— John Gilpin

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are…

— Guru Gobind Singh

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish…

— Felix Adler

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…

— Edward Hoagland

With 'Black and White 2,' I want to put it in a setting where you're actually using the creature. I want the…

— Peter Molyneux

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to…

— Vincent de Paul

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

— Steven Pinker

I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight…

— Anne Frank

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've…

— Scott Speedman

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience…

— Virginia Woolf

Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's…

— Jeremy Bulloch

Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of…

— Michael Bierut

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic…

— Suzanne Gordon

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness,…

— James W. Sire

Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological…

— Uta Hagen

How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared…

— Charles Darwin

My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.

— Vincent Cassel

The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Playing characters is fun because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

— Tierra Whack

“There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!”

— Lloyd C. Douglas

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

— Malala Yousafzai

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

— Umar

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

— Leon Surmelian

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

— David McCullough

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

— Lisa Kudrow

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

— Steve Buscemi

I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.

— Dave Foley

We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.

— Greg Reid

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

— Joseph Joubert

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

— Billy West