Character Quotes · Page 220

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

— Sheryl Lee

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

— Stephen L. Richards

I like to think of characters in relation to other cinematic characters.

— Leslye Headland

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

— Epicurus

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very…

— Paul Dini

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

— Russell D. Moore

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

— Gerald R. Ford

If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

— Brian Azzarello

There was a time when people were like, 'Oh my God, Sheamus' character is boring.' Well, when you're just in wrestling matches…

— Sheamus

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and…

— Joanna Trollope

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man…

— Samuel Johnson

Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But…

— Ian Mckellen

“The true greatness of the frontier lies embedded between men of character, those that stride in the face of danger, and despite…

— Trent Lindsey

I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I…

— James Wan

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity…

— Campbell Scott

When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He…

— Sakyong Mipham

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue…

— Jean de la Bruyere

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how…

— Nicholas Ozeki

I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot…

— Eric McCormack

I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through…

— Holly Branson

A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a…

— Gus Van Sant

I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings…

— Wendy Lesser

People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they…

— Peter Jacobson

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

— Berenice Bejo

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

— Charles R. Swindoll

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

— Asa Butterfield

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

— Thomas Chalmers

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

— Tommy Tenney

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

— Holly Hunter

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

— Albert Einstein

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

— Kathleen Turner

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

— David Gergen

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

— Rebecca West

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

— Ayn Rand

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

— Stefan Kapicic

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

— Napoleon Hill