Character Quotes · Page 451

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

— Anonymous

“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”

— Renee Fleming

I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.

— Laura Dern

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.

— James K. Polk

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

— Cynthia Stevenson

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.

— Katharine Ross

When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is…

— Mark Ruffalo

Together with the social responsibility of businesses, there is also the social responsibility of consumers. Every person ought to have the awareness…

— Pope Francis

One of my favorite movie characters is Mother Sister from Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing.' It is such a beautiful name,…

— Kevin Morby

I think we're fascinated by gangsters and that whole lifestyle and crossing the line. We get sort of stuck in our normal…

— Denzel Washington

“Want of courage is the last thing to be pardoned by young men, who usually look upon bravery as the chief of…

— Alexander Pushkin

I'm over the moon to play an iconic character like Ted Hastings and for my career to be defined by this role…

— Adrian Dunbar

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear…

— Dolph Lundgren

When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more…

— Mia Goth

“I'm not like most characters, I guess. Everyone else in here seems to be happy having their lives already planned out for…

— Samantha van Leer

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like…

— Richard Avedon

“It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of…

— Eudora Welty

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot…

— Robert Harris

I think that ‘New Moon’ was my favorite book as well mainly because I like the juxtaposition of all sudden people being…it’s…

— Robert Pattinson

Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as…

— Mary Lee Settle

When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I…

— Abhishek Bachchan

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

— Swara Bhaskar

As actors, sometimes we want our character to go somewhere different than it goes, but that's being an actor.

— Holland Roden

A mans life will be of the character of his thought. His outward life will be as the inner impulse is.

— John G. Lake

Two things define us: our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.

— Terry Mark

Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.

— Timothy Miller

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

— Alden Ehrenreich

The true greatness of a nation lies in its character, not in its economic or military power.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

To win once you must have talent, but to win again you must have character.

— John Wooden

“Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.”

— Charles W. Colson

As a child, I was a clown. I didn't hesitate to make a fool of myself and I would love to completely…

— Gemma Ward

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

— John Baldoni

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

— Dennis Prager

“Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that…

— Albert Camus

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and…

— Jasmin Bhasin