Character Quotes · Page 32

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack…

— Alice Hoffman

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

— Sylvester Stallone

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I was playing this role on 'Ugly Betty,' the sweetest, nicest guy. He was a fun character to play, but I was…

— Ralph Macchio

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I…

— Jeri Ryan

As far as geek culture, I didn't grow up in the comic con geek culture lane, then I started doing Comic Cons…

— Dante Basco

There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where…

— Scott Cohen

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

— Stan Winston

“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the…

— Marquis de Sade

It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far…

— Felix Adler

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

— Eric McCormack

“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and…

— John Stuart Mill

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what…

— Nina Conti

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for…

— Michael Caine

Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain.…

— Rose McGowan

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

— Dr. Seuss

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

— Denis Diderot

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or…

— Ann Brashares

Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

— Paul Molitor

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one…

— Aristotle

For me, what is more important is the challenge the character poses for me as an actor.

— Mukesh Tiwari

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

— Dalai Lama

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to…

— John Lithgow

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm just happy there are characters in the world. I think that anybody who's completely nuts and makes the world a more…

— Cassie Ramone