Character Quotes · Page 437

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

— John Boyega

Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.

— David Ignatius

Courage is the collective strength of heart, mind and soul, but the character plays the key role.

— Anuj Somany

“Cruelty is in all of us,” he said. “But they made it a virtue.”

— Anthony Ryan

Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing

— Aamir Khan

In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

— Julie Plec

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a…

— Elizabeth Wordsworth

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue… In brief, let me see in you an abyss of…

— Francois Rabelais

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that…

— Wilkie Collins

It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria…

— E. M. Forster

I feel so lucky to have 'Euphoria' as a first experience with taking on a character and exploring acting and in having…

— Hunter Schafer

“Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of…

— James Allen

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time…

— William Blake

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still…

— Drew Magary

One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead…

— Joe Cornish

I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a…

— Chadwick Boseman

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh,…

— George Clooney

He may be a lot of things, but Donald Trump has not done one thing that detracts from the character or the…

— Rush Limbaugh

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to…

— Sarah Shahi

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage…

— Howard Zinn

Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst]…

— Clive Standen

It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t…

— Tim Wynne-Jones

Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I…

— Genevieve Nnaji

I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading…

— Robert Picardo

Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you're trying to discover a character and actualize it.

— Kari Skogland

“You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.”

— Oscar Wilde

Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless.

— Laozi

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

— Denis Diderot

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a…

— Andy Daly

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

— Chinua Achebe

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

— J. K. Rowling

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

— Sean Penn

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

— Aristotle

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

— Oscar Wilde

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

— Sivananda

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

Each character I play pushes me into a deeper understanding of myself.

— Naomi Ackie