Character Quotes · Page 453

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be…

— Dakota Fanning

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.”

— Dennis Kimbro

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

— Luke Evans

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and…

— Frances Hesselbein

I think it's okay to have fun and show some character and some personality.

— Sean Doolittle

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then…

— William H. Macy

I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play.

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should…

— Anne Enright

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been…

— Ashly Burch

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most…

— Flannery O'Connor

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

— Aldo Leopold

My characters are usually composites. I wish I could pretend that I make up all of these characters, but no. I steal…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical…

— Maria Montessori

Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control…

— Wilferd Peterson

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm,…

— Gregory Maguire

When you're in your early 20s, a lot of characters can be one or two dimensional. You want a role to substantiate…

— Tom Hughes

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes - it's called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method…

— Kevin Young

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had…

— Don Hertzfeldt

“This night the woman of his belittling deprecations was thinking how great and good her husband was. But over them both there…

— Thomas Hardy

“As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that…

— John Rawls

I am interested in the creativity of the criminal attitude because I recognize in it the existence of a special condition of…

— Joseph Beuys

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and…

— Charles M. Schulz

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of…

— Richard P. Feynman

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

— Euripides

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

— Anonymous

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

— Paulo Coelho

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

— Peter Jackson

Virtue isn't not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.

— Democritus

Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

— Henry Drummond

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

— Harvey Mackay

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

— John Adams

I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

— Jason Momoa

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

— William Hazlitt

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

— Klaus Kinski

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

— Kelly Macdonald

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

— Mo Yan

I feel passionately that we need more space on TV for sketch shows for character actors to experiment.

— Natasia Demetriou