Character Quotes · Page 80

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character…

— Elie Ducommun

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy…

— Iain Banks

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

— Noam Chomsky

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

— Billy Sunday

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

— Brian Tracy

Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their…

— Mencius

I was at school and trying to fit in, like most kids, I didn't want to be outside the herd. Then all…

— Joey Barton

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.

— Lurlene McDaniel

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward…

— Walter Inglis Anderson

I got to work with Ric Flair. I got to work with John Cena when he was just coming into his own.…

— Maria Kanellis

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

— Frank Spotnitz

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health,…

— Donna Tartt

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a…

— Robert Morgan

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

— Brittany Snow

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe…

— Diana Gabaldon

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big…

— Paul Klee

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs…

— Vonda Shepard

There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's…

— Olivia Thirlby

If only we would learn every day of our lives to overcome those things in our character which are negative, to let…

— Albert E Cliffe

I always wished there was somebody like the Coen Brothers and they appeared. And so yeah, my favorite role that I've ever…

— Billy Bob Thornton

“Financial crashes happen precisely because the people who remember the last one have either died or retired and thus are no longer…

— N.T. Wright

“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself…

— Timothy Snyder

I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great…

— Elijah Wood

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…

— Maya Angelou

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

— Dorian Missick

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it…

— James Madison

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a…

— Natalie Portman

I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.

— Meg Ryan

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise…

— George Washington

We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness…

— Joshua Greene

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would…

— Columbus Short

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we…

— Samuel L. Jackson

We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the…

— Jane Goldman

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go…

— Frankie Faison

I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books.…

— Megan Chance

You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can. If you love everyone and everything you lose your natural powers…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

One day when I was working on a movie, I stayed at the beach a little too long, and they said, “You…

— George Hamilton

You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments…

— Tony Kushner