Character Quotes · Page 47

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So…

— Trina Robbins

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

— Mike Tyson

You have to play your characters, not like them.

— John Malkovich

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

— Yoshiki

I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth,…

— Benjamin Clementine

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be…

— Anonymous

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not…

— C. S. Lewis

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

— Howard G. Hendricks

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

— Keri Russell

Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair.

— Ellen Pompeo

“The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love. One creates a man…

— Richelle Goodrich

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which…

— James Leonard Gordon

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover…

— Neil Peart

I like playing these awkward moments in between that build relationships. I don’t ever want to play that character that grabs the…

— Norman Reedus

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that…

— Lauren Lapkus

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

— Aristotle

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Quentin Tarantino was talking about Ordell a little bit, and I was like, "I'm sure Ordell is one of those people who…

— Samuel L. Jackson

My grandma has said many of the things her character says. But she was much nicer! I made her meaner for dramatic…

— Nicole Holofcener

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too…

— Thomas Sowell

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

— Rajneesh

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…

— Robert Louis Stevenson