Character Quotes · Page 65

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”

— Voltaire

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her…

— Milla Jovovich

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

— Walter Koenig

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…

— Sam Harris

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

The goal was to create a mood, an atmosphere, and I think we have achieved that. We wanted people to not only…

— Evan Jacobs

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof…

— Samuel Smiles

I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of…

— John Travolta

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

— Henry David Thoreau

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

— Ovid

One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm…

— Anthony Bourdain

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily…

— Artemas Ward

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of…

— Samuel Smiles

Virtue is the truest liberty.

— Owen Feltham

'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero…

— Louis Leterrier

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on…

— Jonathan Dee

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

— Imelda Staunton

At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald…

— Ari Graynor

Angels are not from heaven,our sincerity towards others will show the angels around us.

— Sumesh Nair

Ultimately, you change the culture in Washington only one way, and it's one election at a time, with the character of the…

— Paul Sadler

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

— William Hazlitt