Character Quotes · Page 434

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

— Viggo Mortensen

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

— Clint Eastwood

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

— Akira Kurosawa

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

— Dane Cook

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

— Thomas Pynchon

You want to be in touch with the fans. The fans want to get to know your personality and character.

— Ashley Young

Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person…

— Morgan Saylor

If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds…

— Gayle Rankin

It's one thing to be a comic book fan, but when you have to create a character and put him in a…

— Salim Akil

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a…

— Karl Kraus

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the…

— Rana Daggubati

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of…

— Roderick Murchison

In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…

— Israel Shenker

In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same…

— J. Michael Straczynski

“In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. And because…

— D.A. Carson

“Impulsive, sensation-seeking, and incapable of experiencing empathy or guilt, a narcissistic psychopath treats other people as objects of need fulfillment and wish…

— Bandy X Lee

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same…

— Friedrich Schiller

One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities.…

— Kresley Cole

Yes, you write your own sketches at The Groundlings. If you want to create a character, you write a sketch where you're…

— Edi Patterson

We are born perfect, and we will die perfect. The problem is that we create that character in our story that we…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

— Emily Giffin

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

— James Frey

Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

— Darwyn Cooke

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

— Jean Paul

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

— William Godwin

“Searching for a fruitful tree is better than sitting in a fruitless garden.”

— Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas

I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there.

— Mary Kay Andrews

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

— Anne Bronte

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

— Rudy Rucker

Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

— George Pell

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

— Ted Malloch

Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.

— Honore de Balzac

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

— Martin Landau

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy

— James Lafferty