Character Quotes · Page 198

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

— Anne Lamott

You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.

— Linden Ashby

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

— Sri Chinmoy

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

— Stuart Woods

Even when close friends want me to play a character in their film, I take it up only when it just cannot…

— Samuthirakani

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

— Ben Chaplin

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

— John Ruskin

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and…

— Patrick Marber

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's…

— Dylan O'Brien

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's…

— Sean Bean

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to…

— Zachary Quinto

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation…

— Michael N. Castle

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in…

— William A. Dembski

“It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character…

— Marcel Proust

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on,…

— James Nesbitt

“Edward Tylor noted in 1874 that the religions of “savage” societies were “almost devoid of that ethical element which to the educated…

— Robert Wright

[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around,…

— Jim Sturgess

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the…

— John Rosemond

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class;…

— Samuel Smiles

In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,…

— Richard LaGravenese

I find I am more interested in the villain-type roles because they can be so much more complex than just the villain.…

— Shuler Hensley

I think when you're a new actor in Bollywood, it's about seizing the moment. If you can prove to the audience there…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

— Dorothy Allison

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

— Bob Mayer

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

— Lord Acton

I dont categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I dont judge; I just play them.

— Kevin Spacey

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get…

— Theodore Melfi

“Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...”

— F Scott Fitzgerald

Bluffton is growing. But we must hold on to that small-town character.

— Laura Bush

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in…

— John Cusack

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

— Graham Swift

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

— James Norton

“Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.”

— Edward Abbey

It takes years to prove that you are good person, and seconds to destroy that image.

— Anonymous

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of…

— Rishi Kapoor

I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.

— George Perez