Character Quotes · Page 204

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

— Ayn Rand

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

— Anonymous

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

— Lily Tomlin

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”

— Alphonse Karr

Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

— Jack Whitehall

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

— James Frain

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

— Larry the Cable Guy

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

— Luc de Clapiers

As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's…

— David Wenham

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially…

— Orson F. Whitney

Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness:…

— Charles Stanley

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him…

— Aristotle

When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters…

— Gong Yoo

When I first met Adèle I was like, ‘Wow, this girl has a strong character!’ She has something very free about her.…

— Lea Seydoux

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

It's really an organic sort of process. You start off with the character on the page. You fall in love with that…

— Ioan Gruffudd

As a kid, I was playing a character, so the film was not on my shoulders. I did 11 films out of…

— Kunal Khemu

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts…

— George Washington

Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability…

— Ann Patchett

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which…

— Charles Dickens

I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly,…

— Kate Chopin

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

— Confucius

People will hate you, rate you,shake you,but how strong you stand makes you a person of character.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Lust of ease and comfort absolutely destroys mental toughness and begins to slowly erode ones character.”

— William James Moore

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

— Wally Lamb

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

— Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

— Ralph Fiennes

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

— Patrick deWitt

“Wealth does not impress me, character does. If you have no character, you're broke.”

— Christopher Josephs

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

— Lillian Hellman

Mercy Watson was a character that had been in my head for a long time.

— Kate DiCamillo

“God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do.”

— Kristiane Backer

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

— Christopher Lambert

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just…

— Neal McDonough

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

— Terry McMillan