Character Quotes · Page 223

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

— Jim Starlin

Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.

— Terry Venables

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

— John Olsen

A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public…

— William Cobbett

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the…

— Vijay Sethupathi

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character.…

— Liberty Ross

“the existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is.…

— James W Sire

I remember I had scenes with Melinda McGraw in "Ides Of March" that I didn't have in "Video Vigilante," but I can't…

— Eric McCormack

I always say I'm just eternally grateful for this role because Raven Reyes defies all stereotypes. It's revolutionary for a character on…

— Lindsey Morgan

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets…

— Richard Dormer

Praxeology - economics - provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments.

— Murray Rothbard

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has…

— Trent Reznor

Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of…

— Leo Szilard

“You can say whatever you like to me. I make no moral judgments." Cassandra was slow to reply, momentarily distracted by his…

— Lisa Kleypas

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can…

— Oswald Chambers

[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in…

— Michelle Monaghan

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality,…

— Max Beerbohm

The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came…

— Martin Scorsese

“It is only after knowing him for some time that you begin to realize you are, to him, an essentially fictional character,…

— Michael Cunningham

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

— Sanya Malhotra

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Every character, before they are heroes or villains, they are human beings.

— Tabu

“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. —Albert Einstein”

— Oliver Benjamin

Your job as an actor, I guess, is just to make people relate to the character.

— Travis Fimmel

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally…

— Tommy Wiseau

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

— John Adams

Some people are dead but their character kept them alive, while others are alive but their character killed them.

— Anonymous

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

— Shelley Long

“In a man, you have to look for character and security, going beyond his age.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

— Henry Cloud

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of…

— Richard Gere