Character Quotes · Page 450

Actually, Jang Ki Yong and I have completely opposite personalities.

— Lee Hye-ri

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

— Anonymous

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

— Louis-Philippe I of France

The greatest virtue that one should try to cultivate is the habit of self-reliance.

— Senora Roy

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

— Oliver Reed

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

— Oscar Wilde

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

— Payal Rohatgi

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,

— James MacGregor Burns

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago.…

— Johnny Depp

Visually, I want to try everything. But I believe that every shot of my films really expresses what I think about the…

— Takashi Miike

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

— Ariel Winter

“The morals of this story are that if the reward is good enough, the dog will work to earn that reward, and,…

— American College of Veterinary Behaviorists

I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character…

— Walter Millis

You have an iconic character in Superman. You want to keep him vital and relevant to the audience as it evolves. So…

— Chris Claremont

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale…

— Mohsin Hamid

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right…

— Anonymous

I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want…

— Keira Knightley

Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to…

— Colin Farrell

I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in…

— Joseph Addison

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from…

— Kelsey Chow

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…

— Eudora Welty

A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends…

— Edward Norton

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

— Albert Schweitzer

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

— Corey Stoll

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.

— Norm MacDonald

“It’s not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn’t make them less important”

— Margherita Hack

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the…

— Giancarlo Esposito

“A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.”

— Navonne Johns

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

— William Saroyan

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

— Tinie Tempah

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

— Gilbert Hernandez

“Job’s sickness and afflictions didn’t build his character; they revealed the character he already had.”

— Praying Medic

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It don't matter how HIGHLY qualified you are. What matterz iz, how WELL qualified you are!

— Anonymous

How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

— Marquis de Sade