Character Quotes · Page 214

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

— Dawn Powell

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

— Wes Borland

“Develop your characters well enough that they do stupid things on their own.”

— Rebecca McKinsey

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at…

— Cindy Sherman

My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

— Walter Scott

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

— Dalai Lama

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

— Armstrong Williams

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day…

— Lord Chesterfield

I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I…

— Michael Craig-Martin

“We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.”

— Bertrand Russell

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember…

— Billy West

Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] was where I grew up. For me, Darla was like going to graduate school for acting.…

— Julie Benz

As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the…

— Spike Lee

I abhor badly-written characters and any character, be it man, woman, any character in the film. If it is a well-written character,…

— Sayani Gupta

“Also by Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values Sharing Good Times The Hornet’s Nest The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Christmas in Plains (illustrated…

— Anonymous

Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.…

— Ruth Negga

“The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics” is ... not to be a novel or impressive contribution to ethical theorizing, but instead…

— Magnus Vinding

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the…

— Thomas Hobbes

Don't just learn one thing; learn everything about whatever you're going into. If you want to be an actor, if you want…

— Lucas Grabeel

Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace…

— Glenn R. Schiraldi

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments,…

— Henry Jacob Bigelow

On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but…

— David Bazan

We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live…

— Katharine Hepburn

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

— Ron Fournier

I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character,…

— Vince Vaughn

If there's one movie character that I wish I could be, for sure it's Travis Bickle.

— Gaspar Noe

Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me.

— Billy Bob Thornton

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.

— Nicholas Johnson

A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.

— Melissa Benoist

I have lost close to 20 kilos, and it has kind of helped prepare my character for 'Sanam Teri Kasam.'

— Harshvardhan Rane

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

— Adam Garcia

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle

“One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.”

— Raheel Farooq

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

— Edward Abbey

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

— Ayn Rand

“Being boring is as likely as being interesting to make one impossible to forget.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

— Charles Bukowski

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

— John Green