Character Quotes · Page 431

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

— Alexander Pope

It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!

— Hideaki Anno

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

— David Crabb

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

— Colm Meaney

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

— Marshall Allman

Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds! Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

— Samuel Johnson

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.

— Shoghi Effendi

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these…

— Richelle Mead

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have…

— Edgar Mitchell

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for…

— Kathryn Bigelow

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my…

— Holt McCallany

I never thought I'd be anything, coming from a rough neighborhood. So my character was built on the street. I had to…

— George Hill

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name…

— Nichelle Nichols

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way.…

— Paul Dini

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His…

— Joyce Cary

Some parts of the population are starting to realize that character is extremely important and that it cannot be measured by the…

— Martha Stout

I just kind of loved the idea of playing a character that was so different than myself, it's actually the opposite. I…

— Nikki Reed

There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the…

— A. A. Gill

“The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they…

— Erich Fromm

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important…

— Charles Evans Hughes

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters…

— Pierce Brosnan

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life.…

— Anjelica Huston

“It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.”

— Sara Sheridan

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

— James Anthony Froude

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

— Lee R. Raymond

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Stranger, what e’er thy land or creed or race, Here rest awhile, there’s virtue in the place.”     - Anonymous   A”

— Sigrid Vansandt

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to…

— William Atherton

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

— Stephen Leacock

Always have a unique character like salt, its presence is not felt but its absence make all things tasteless

— Anas

In a typical Hindi film, there's the role of the hero, the heroine, and the other important character is the villain.

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

Rumors are often delivered with no return address. In most cases, it is wise you do not reply.

— Anonymous

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a…

— Roger Ross Williams

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

— Susan Sontag

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

My favorite characters that I've gotten to do are the ones that surprised me the most.

— Ron Livingston