Character Quotes · Page 456

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

— Gautama Buddha

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

If you don't have a good character you have nothing. Character portrays the moral values of a person.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.

— Ron Perlman

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's a real world. No glass shoe. No seven dwarfs. But there's always a villain who wants to destroy your life.

— Bernajoy Vaal

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

— Jodie Foster

The Neapolitan novels have a lot of references to things outside, to things of the world, to culture, politics, the city of…

— Ann Goldstein

“Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of…

— Russell Kirk

“From what I can tell, morality is a word. Nothing more. There're the things people do when others are watching and the…

— Stephanie Kuehn

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

— Anonymous

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or…

— Joan Allen

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's…

— Phil Ochs

When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character…

— Regina King

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around…

— Zach Braff

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because…

— Morris Gleitzman

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you…

— Dianna Agron

Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies.…

— Fredrik Bond

I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a…

— Philippe Halsman

When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, and they described the character…

— Chris Wood

“It is only when you are under pressure- when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently…

— Brian Tracy

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other…

— Will Davis Jr

I really enjoy working in television and the evolution of a character over time.

— Rachel Boston

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

— Greg Howard

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

— Jerry Reed

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

— Jerry Falwell

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a…

— Sylvester Stallone

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

— Paul Tillich

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

— Alex Kapranos

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

— Lauren Cohan

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.

— Robert Englund

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

— Sigmund Freud

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

— Democritus

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the character.

— Kevin Conroy

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

— Alfred de Vigny