Character Quotes · Page 75

The cross is like a walnut whose outer rind is bitter, but the inner kernel is pleasant and invigorating. So the cross…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I…

— Russell Crowe

Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.

— Paul Delaroche

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or…

— Samuel Johnson

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever…

— Walter Savage Landor

The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Ah. Well, it stands for Freedom From Morality. We don't think healthy amorality happens naturally." "But you're not amoral," I pointed out.…

— John Barnes

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

— Eric Bana

When much virtue is achieved, nothing is not overcome.

— Laozi

It used to be that if I was stopped in the street at all it would be for Ser Barristan Selmy, but…

— Ian McElhinney

“Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief.”

— Aldous Huxley

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

— Nadia Bjorlin

When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most…

— Daniel Kehlmann

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story,…

— Uzo Aduba

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

— Ian Mcewan

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,…

— Patricia Highsmith

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

— Bob Bergen

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a…

— Berenice Bejo

Let me make something clear: I can't do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a…

— Fahadh Faasil

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull…

— George Bernard Shaw

I tell my daughter every morning, 'Now, what are the two most important parts of you?' And she says, 'My head and…

— Viola Davis

For when there is victory, when battles are won, when burdens are lifted, when bright shines the sun, when struggling souls gather…

— Tom Krause

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

— Marshall Allman

I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character…

— Harry Shearer