Character Quotes · Page 193

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

— Carl Schurz

As we continue to apply AI to new fields, ethical dilemmas will arise and the answers will not be clearly defined.

— Will Hurd

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

— Vicky McClure

I was in 'UFC Undisputed 2,' but I was only a bonus character, so not everyone got to play as me.

— Brendan Schaub

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

— Hugh Kingsmill

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

— Plautus

I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.

— Abbi Jacobson

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these…

— Richelle Mead

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've…

— Scott Speedman

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my…

— Holt McCallany

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for…

— Kathryn Bigelow

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have…

— Edgar Mitchell

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish…

— Felix Adler

With 'Black and White 2,' I want to put it in a setting where you're actually using the creature. I want the…

— Peter Molyneux

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…

— Edward Hoagland

“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean…

— C. S. Lewis

Every good story needs a complication. We learn this fiction-writing fundamental in courses and workshops, by reading a lot or, most painfully,…

— Monica Wood

The key to writing for Richard (Pryor) was to just push his buttons and then know when to push the buttons on…

— Alan Thicke

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of…

— Dean Koontz

“Society considers the sex experiences of a man as attributes of his general development, while similar experiences in the life of a…

— Emma Goldman

“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also…

— Evan Meekins

Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and…

— Kathy Bates

It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.

— Jack Hyles

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

— J.A. Konrath

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

— Napoleon Hill

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for…

— Donal Logue

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

“The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.”

— Aldous Huxley

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

— Priyanka Chopra

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

— Matt Dillon

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

— Sam Shepard

With press in the past, I've felt like I had to sort of play a character to sort of get through it.

— Monica Barbaro

What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

— Sathya Sai Baba

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

— Jennifer Tilly

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

— David Duchovny