Character Quotes · Page 124

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

— John Wooden

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

— Michael Sheen

I like playing characters with internal problems.

— Michael Eklund

“Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.”

— N.T. Wright

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

— Plato

“My morality is almost a contortionist.”

— Eliza Crewe

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.

— Georg Simmel

It's always fun to play the bad guy, that's for sure.

— Carmella

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

— Vernon Howard

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

— Richard Steele

As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the [script] page.

— Harry Connick, Jr

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

— Joseph Addison

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

— Peter De Vries

You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else's.

— Nicky Gumbel

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

— Francis Spufford

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that…

— Anonymous

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are…

— Moliere

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's…

— Tom Clancy

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes.…

— Sandra Brown

Women Are Like Fruits. Every Woman Has Her Own Uniqueness, Taste, And Colour... But The Problem Is The Men, Sometimes They Seem…

— Pacifiersucker

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and…

— Tom Green

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks…

— Graham Henry

“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other…

— Immanuel Kant

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly…

— Thomas Keneally

“It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries,…

— Christopher Hitchens

As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to…

— Michael McKean

Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune,…

— David Hume

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging…

— Ayn Rand

Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down…

— Harvey Mackay

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a…

— Henry Fielding

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

— Hayley Atwell

You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.

— T. B. Joshua

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd like to be known for my character.

— Soundarya

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

— Ben Barnes

What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

— Anonymous

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

— Josephine Langford