Character Quotes · Page 109

Modern morality is all about perception.

— Rachel Cusk

I just like playing unique characters that I love.

— Kate McKinnon

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

— John Churton Collins

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

— Proverb

The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

— Yamada Koun

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

— Adrian Rogers

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

— Sri Chinmoy

“Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good”

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

— Charlotte Riley

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

— Andrew Young

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

— C. S. Lewis

“It's clear to me that if we raise children with no moral compass, we are planting the seeds of our own destruction.”

— Glenn Beck

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

— Jeremy Renner

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

I think every actor tries to put a little bit of themselves into each character, and I think if you watch very…

— Chris Demetral

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are…

— Ari Graynor

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

— Shana Alexander

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a…

— Sarah Shahi

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror…

— David Naughton

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot…

— Saint Augustine

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the…

— Brad Warner

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles. I think anyone who makes a…

— Barbara Broccoli

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But…

— Sinqua Walls

It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it,…

— Denzel Washington

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going…

— Emory Cohen

Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the…

— Rich Mullins

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect.…

— Tim Curry

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in…

— Blaise Pascal

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression.…

— David Foster Wallace

Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

— Glen Keane

Character is what you do in the dark.

— Dwight L. Moody

The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.

— Michael J. Rosen

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

— Stuart Wilde

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

— Henry Edward Manning

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

— Suzanne Vega

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

— Don Marquis

Let us go home and cultivate our virtues.

— Robert E. Lee