Character Quotes · Page 447

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

— Laozi

I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.

— Alex Sharp

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

— Michael Scott

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

— Lisa Hanawalt

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

— Kevin Bacon

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

— Roger Penrose

When the actors look your character, half the problems are solved.

— Priyadarshan

There is an inalienable law. Whenever a character on screen pities himself, the audience stops pitying him. They will cry so long…

— David Seltzer

I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and…

— Sunny Deol

The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm…

— Jim Carrey

I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll…

— Katee Sackhoff

I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on…

— Holly Hunter

The character of our self-being is the character of our advice. we are a character to advice. we advise our advice to…

— Anonymous

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high…

— Kevin McDonald

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

— Grant Morrison

Gail Anderson-Dargatz has a noticing eye, a voice as unique as the countryside she writes about, and a heart large enough to…

— Jack Hodgins

Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to…

— Henry Giroux

I think people are willing to take more of a risk on an indie film, about character, etc...but at the same time,…

— Adam Driver

So, it's a delicate thing, but at the same time our producers and writers are very much aware of the potential downfall…

— Emily Deschanel

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters…

— Antoine Fuqua

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a…

— Amos Oz

The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the…

— Aristotle

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and…

— Horace Mann

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

— Lord Chesterfield

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

— Gerard Way

“The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.”

— C.G. Jung

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian.

— Woody Allen

“What separates the heroes from the villains? One speech in the night?”

— Brandon Sanderson

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

— David Brooks

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Having self-respect is the most beautiful quality a woman can possess.

— Anonymous

Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

— Vin Diesel

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them…

— Al Pacino

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.”

— Stephen King

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

— Eric Zorn

I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.

— Ritika Singh

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

— Samuel Smiles