Character Quotes · Page 190

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

— Charles de Gaulle

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

— Tom Sturridge

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

— Charles Caleb Colton

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

— Stockard Channing

The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.

— Madame de Stael

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

— Karl Kraus

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

— Daniel Radcliffe

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what…

— Stephen Graham

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

“We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person…

— Morgan Saylor

If you put me in a box, I'm a character actor. The thing that keeps popping up for me - it sounds…

— Gayle Rankin

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you…

— Patricia Clarkson

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West,…

— Douglas Malloch

What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon…

— Cotton Mather

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag…

— Jim Starlin

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti…

— Jonis Agee

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any…

— James Frey

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was…

— Mamie Van Doren

There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

— Abraham Lincoln

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

— William Shakespeare

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

— John Stuart Mill

See, a villain takes the story forward. If everything centers around nice people, then there will be no twists and turns.

— Saswata Chatterjee

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will…

— Confucius

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

— David Finch

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

— Arnold Palmer

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any…

— Dianne Wiest

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

— Penn Jillette

“Inner strength of character cannot be measured by any means but performance in the time of need.”

— K.L. Toth

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

— George W. Bush

My take is that every character requires a different character to be cast.

— Barun Sobti

Life is full of challenges. How you handle these challenges is what builds character. Never be afraid to be who you are.

— Erin Brockovich

Do not lower your standard to keep anyone. Make them meet you at your level. Self respect is power.

— Anonymous

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.

— Vikrant Parsai

It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'

— Laura Dern