Character Quotes · Page 202

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.

— George Santayana

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

— Washington Irving

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

— Maya Angelou

My character is just an extension of who I am. I'm not so much of an egomaniac. I'm not so much of…

— Jade Cargill

Lee Rang was abandoned by love, so he's a character who has a deep desire for destruction.

— Kim Bum

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

— Josef Pieper

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

— Anthony Browne

Look back only with gratitude. The happy moments created memories and the sad moments created character.

— Anonymous

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there…

— Walt Disney

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good…

— Norman Mailer

Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name…

— Matt Groening

There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase,…

— Bill Forsyth

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found…

— Randy Harrison

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance…

— Richard Wright

Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for…

— Jamie Dornan

Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation…

— Wilhelm Reich

When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I try to discover the character's primary motivation. In a screenplay, you can make up a hundred different variables of a character.…

— Kurt Yaeger

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of…

— Charlotte Bronte

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single…

— Charles Francis Adams II

My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't…

— Alycia Debnam Carey

A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer…

— Jim Butcher

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

— Jennifer Stone

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.

— Matthew Fox

“Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.”

— Jeff Goins

“I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their…

— Anne Frank

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I get a lot of scripts, but they're all for the same type of character.

— David Faustino

I supply a presence. There are never any long dialogue scenes to establish a character.

— Charles Bronson

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

— Taylor Sheridan

“PROVERB: Eating meat is a difficult moral decision, because it’s stolen, that meat. You should apologize.”

— Joseph Fink

I find that the most interestingly written parts happen to be the bad guys.

— Liev Schreiber

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

— Laurie Metcalf

Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

— Ram Charan

As an actor, it's your job to switch on and off from the character.

— Prateik Babbar

I think I embody the values of morals that my parents and life experiences have given me.

— Jason Kelce

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those…

— Michelle Dockery