Character Quotes · Page 179

“And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

— Dave Dravecky

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

— Christian Bale

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

— James Martineau

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

— Anonymous

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

— Tom Hanks

“Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.”

— James Carlos Blake

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy…

— Jordana Brewster

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it…

— J. Michael Straczynski

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth,…

— Henry Parry Liddon

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend…

— Mario Puzo

In 'Kalank,' I am playing a character, which is quite strong, quiet a little complex yet interesting, that drew me towards the…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up…

— Emmy Rossum

Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this…

— Kathleen Robertson

“I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and…

— Mz. Robinson

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be…

— Kate Bernheimer

Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number;…

— Patrick Henry

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many…

— Geena Davis

I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk…

— Jason Segel

I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated…

— Henry Giroux

“Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality…

— Kakuzo Okakura

I've gone up two suit sizes. The character I'm playing, he's strong, I can say that much. I've changed my physique a…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

— Emily Bronte

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”

— Jonathan Haidt

I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.

— Eric Bana

“Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality!”

— W.O. Makora

“Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware!”

— Mehnaz Ansari

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

— Alyson Hannigan

Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of…

— Goldust

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

— Tom Hanks

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

— Anonymous

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

— James Lee Burke

“That world is not the product of your sins, it is the product and the image of your virtues. It”

— Ayn Rand