Character Quotes · Page 454

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

— Chris Morris

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

— Nicolas Malebranche

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

— Kevin Spacey

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

— John le Carre

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

— Charles Krauthammer

TALENTS Will Take You To High Position. But, Character Will Help You To Maintain The High Position.

— Pacifiersucker

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

— H. G. Wells

“You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi”

— Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters.…

— Michael Eklund

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction,…

— Aristotle

“You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop…

— John Paul Warren

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that…

— Felicia Day

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure…

— Ayn Rand

Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and…

— Evan Davis

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to…

— Randy Harrison

“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

You're trying to play someone [Edward Cullen] who's seen by a lot of people as being this perfect thing, but what is…

— Robert Pattinson

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a…

— Peter Ackroyd

Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural…

— Janet Lembke

“It takes gumption to wake up every day to face the fickle world and cleave to your morals and values Not flinch…

— Emmanuella Raphaelle

My favorite video game when I was a kid was this game called 'Metroid' and the main character of 'Metroid' was Samus.…

— Laura Jane Grace

All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by…

— Campbell McGrath

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help…

— Demetri Martin

“Intelligence is short, virtue is narrow, understanding is wide, and wisdom is tall.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive." Ennesby, Schlock Mercenary ”

— Howard Tayler

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

— Billy Graham

When we decided to make 'DMC5,' one of the things we said off the bat is, 'Let's make a new character.'

— Hideaki Itsuno

It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

— Jack Gleeson

“The character to follow thru on commitments made to others is built by following thru on commitments made to self.”

— Orrin Woodward

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

— E. Stanley Jones

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

— Aristotle

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

— Michel de Montaigne

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Essaying different characters on screen and doing justice to each role entails its own set of research and hard work.

— Tridha Choudhury

We all are brought up on some values, and I believe values define a man's character.

— Mahima Chaudhry

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

— Arjun Rampal

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

— Judith Martin