Character Quotes · Page 217

“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”

— Sophocles

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

— David Hare

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

— Ruta Sepetys

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

— Billy Corgan

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

— Hugo Hamilton

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

— Chris O'Dowd

“She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!”

— Henry Miller

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something…

— Mark Twain

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she…

— Noelle Stevenson

An audience gets to hang onto the characters for the rest of their lives if they want. I think it's great that…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations,…

— Dan Chaon

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that…

— August Wilson

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both…

— David Raiklen

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows…

— Michael Gracey

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…

— Ayn Rand

“The most interesting thing about the world is its fantastic and unpsychoanalyzed character, its wretched and gallant personality, its horrible idiocy and…

— William Saroyan

Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry…

— Rebecca Godfrey

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong…

— Lois Lowry

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character…

— Hayao Miyazaki

It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not,…

— Neil Druckmann

In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible.…

— Joni Mitchell

“Somewhere along the way of trying different things that we think will help change us, we may be misunderstood to be trying…

— Najwa Zebian

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

— Confucius

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

A lot of people think, like, 'JoJo' is fake or 'JoJo' is a character. But, like, it's not.

— JoJo Siwa

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of…

— John Lydon

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

— Zebulon Pike

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

— John Stuart Mill

Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

— Jim Starlin

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

— Henry Miller

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

— Peter Orner

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

— Will Friedle

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

— Michael Connelly

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

— Cassidy Freeman