Character Quotes · Page 210

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

— Alexander Pope

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

— Winston Churchill

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

— Tom Felton

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

— Craig Groeschel

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

— Jubal

I believe in living the character whether it's in films or television.

— Sara Khan

It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

— Liam Hemsworth

“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with…

— Jim Dale

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly…

— George Saunders

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal…

— Noah Hawley

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because…

— Jack Huston

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to…

— Jenna Fischer

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There…

— H. L. Mencken

“Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was…

— Anonymous

When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen…

— L. J. Smith

I use all types of instruments, really depending on the film. Instrument choices are very much tied to lighting, colors, art direction,…

— Douglas Pipes

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those…

— Jane Porter

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take…

— david brooks

I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and…

— Joe Meno

You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You…

— Ophelia Lovibond

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

— Mardy Grothe

I debuted in a movie where I had a very heavy role. People did not accept me in that character.

— Zareen Khan

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor…

— Richard M. Nixon

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

“Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually…

— Donald Miller

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

— John D. Rockefeller

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

— Taryn Manning

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

— Anne Frank

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

— Herbert Spencer

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

— Bill Courtney

“it is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.”

— Seneca

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

— John Kador

“I think a character in a comedy should not know they're in a comedy.”

— Steve Carell