Character Quotes · Page 768

I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a…

— Bernard Herrmann

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their…

— John Adams

I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.

— Goldust

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I think it's impossible to get any movie made, let alone a character story. Even with big stars, which we had, there…

— Sacha Gervasi

Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or…

— Chris Christie

I’m quite flirtatious with anyone. Some people, because I’m playing a gay character, get quite nervous. And I have to reassure them.…

— Rob James-Collier

Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because…

— Gabriel Iglesias

With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with…

— Sara Bareilles

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a…

— John Stuart Mill

“EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY…

— Mark T. Barnes

Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of…

— Gail Simone

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

— Alan Dershowitz

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. Or, theater is for actors as cinema is…

— Diego Luna

Someone once told me, in all his infinite wisdom, beauty, is only skin deep. I of course, looked deeper, and found, where…

— Eric Nickel

There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film…

— David Robert Mitchell

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

— George Washington

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

— Danielle Trussoni

Without freedom there can be no morality.

— Carl Jung

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them.…

— Denis Waitley

I basically made it my mission to prove that ethical fashion isn't frumpy and bland.

— Amanda Hearst

I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's…

— Eli Roth

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

— Mick Jagger

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having…

— Sarah Kay

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

— Anonymous

I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with…

— Elizabeth Wein

A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then…

— Patti Harrison

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I…

— Steven Zaillian

A great character will always make you more attractive than someone who only has a great face but no substance.

— Anonymous

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.

— Matthew Rhys

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue…

— Jean de la Bruyere

My love stories are about people who are reluctant to actualize what they so desperately want. They are timid, cautious, but eventually…

— André Aciman

I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

— Agatha Christie

There is some kind of weird idea people have, that morals are objective truths

— Anonymous

When I started with 'Fugly', I was excited that I was playing a raw and edgy character in the film. After I…

— Kiara Advani

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

— David Mallet