Character Quotes · Page 445

If your character is written well and is meaty enough, even two scenes has the potential to stand out.

— Varun Sharma

A man's originality is not only the most beautiful, but the best personality of his life.

— Anuj Somany

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

— William S. Burroughs

I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

— Vince Vaughn

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

— Alexander Pope

I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal…

— Robert M. Hensel

Just As we Can Learn From Our Mistakes, We Can Gain Character From Our Disappointments.

— Anonymous

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are…

— Matt Lucas

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few…

— Brendan Fraser

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in…

— Radha Mitchell

I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some…

— Harvey Fierstein

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know…

— Plato

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked…

— Leslie Easterbrook

Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that…

— E. Stanley Jones

One thing I think about a lot is that one of my favorite pieces of narrative art as a child was 'Calvin…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm…

— Camren Bicondova

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just…

— George Harrar

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves…

— Alan Barth

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than…

— Max Walker

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,…

— Anonymous

I think that'll always be there for [Clint] Barton, right? You have real life, and then you have fight life. And that's…

— Jeremy Renner

That's where the inspiration was and so the more that you rewrite and the more you rewrite and the more the numbnuts…

— Todd Farmer

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

— Orrin Woodward

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.

— Rush Limbaugh

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and…

— Stephen King

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.

— Susan Ford

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

— J. William Schickel

I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.

— Bill Skarsgard

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

You get films like 'Baahubali' once in your life. And Amrendra Bahubali is a character that I can never forget.

— Prabhas

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is…

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear…

— Joseph Hall

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are…

— Henry James