Character Quotes · Page 194

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

— Joseph Heller

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

— Plato

“if the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one…

— Herman Bavinck

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

— Thomas Jones

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for.

— Eric McCormack

“If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.

— Ranbir Kapoor

So it was doing all this research or going to the archives or doing all these interviews or traveling, and then trying…

— Molly Antopol

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director…

— Josh Hartnett

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you…

— Jaime Pressly

I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled…

— Mahershala Ali

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how…

— Eric Kripke

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue…

— Devon Monk

I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’…

— Gal Gadot

Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence…

— Stephen Covey

It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside…

— Edith Wharton

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than…

— Samuel Smiles

I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the…

— Maya Angelou

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…

— Carroll Quigley

One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a…

— Edwin S. Shneidman

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves…

— Joshua Chamberlain

“Foreigners have been encouraged to settle among you. Industry and virtue have been promoted by mutual emulation and mutual inspection; commerce and…

— James Madison

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

— Penelope Lively

I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.

— Edgar Ramirez

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

— Tom Allen

“The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

— Swami Vivekananda

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

— Timothy Spall

Have a Unique Character like a Salt Its presence is not felt, but its absence makes things Tasteless.!'

— Nikhil Saluja

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

— Kurt Fuller

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

— Lao Tzu

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

— Aziz Ansari

A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

— Fernandinho

“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.”

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

— Richard Bach

When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right…

— Peter Facinelli

Bad guys are always fun. It's one of the reasons why I love McKay so much.

— David Hewlett