Character Quotes · Page 208

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished…

— Sallust

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

— Karl Kraus

Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.

— Gary Cahill

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

— Neha Sharma

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

— George Henry Lewes

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

— Ray Bradbury

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

In 2018, according to the Children's Cooperative Book Center at the University of Wisconsin's School of Education, fewer than a third of…

— Meena Harris

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage…

— Thomas Sadoski

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very…

— David Tennant

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a…

— Sebastian Lelio

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it.…

— Sanya Malhotra

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only…

— Douglas Fairbanks

I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re…

— Miles Teller

I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play,…

— Dominic Cooper

Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two…

— Ang Lee

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful…

— Frederic Bastiat

That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know…

— Tahj Mowry

“Authors as diverse as Matthew Arnold and George Orwell have given thought to the serious question: what is to be done about…

— Christopher Hitchens

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most irritating movie character for me was that cradle-to-grave commie, Mary Poppins.

— Ann Coulter

The temperament and habit of a person inside and outside of his/her character once he gets to his/her companion.

— Innah Delos Angeles

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

— David Edelstein

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

— John D. Rockefeller

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

— Edward Thorndike

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

— Daniel Sharman

“You can’t understand my work if you lack the moral deficiency to kill indiscriminately.”

— Martyn V. Halm

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

— David Robinson

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

— Tituss Burgess

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

— Mort Walker

If you want to identify someones character, examine the friends he sits with.

— Anonymous

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

— Bray Wyatt

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

— Andre Gide