Character Quotes · Page 230

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

— Aldo Leopold

I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.

— Essie Davis

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the…

— Melissa Leo

I love auditioning because I also get the confidence that I can play the character and the producer is aware of what…

— Radhika Madan

Doing acts of kindness is not the same as being kind. An act of kindness is finite. Being kind is an internal…

— B D Schiers

You make up a character, there's always gonna be parts of you that, like it or not, shine through.

— Taika Waititi

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

— Anson Mount

“No one has a moral or legal obligation to credit me for my cleverness or praise my good efforts on their behalf.”

— David D. Burns

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I…

— Theodore Parker

“Many of us overvalue autonomy, the strength to stand alone, the capacity to act independently. Far too few of us pay attention…

— William Sloane Coffin

In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Certainly all virtues are very dear to God, but humility pleases Him above all the others, and it seems that He can…

— St. Francis de Sales

It seems like the requirements for my characters are that I have to be either mentally ill or disturbed in some way,…

— Cameron Monaghan

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has…

— Crystal Chappell

“The asshole, by contrast, traffics in and is moved by moral justification—except that moral justification, for him, leads to an entrenched sense…

— Aaron James

I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of…

— Pankaj Kapur

I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but…

— Thomas Lennon

It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels…

— Marie Antoinette

“When we are conscious with morality and our duty, we become unpopular as many wish to believe in making matters to their…

— Dr.T.V.Rao MD

I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or…

— Rebecca Wells

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little…

— Marcel Proust

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and…

— Ron Paul

I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he…

— Mia Wasikowska

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying…

— Jane Austen

No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.

— Laura Carmichael

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

— John Green

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

— Anonymous

I'll try to find a character or a story that is different from those I've done before.

— Shin Min-a

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all…

— Martin Luther

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

— Sarah Paulson

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

— Elmore Leonard

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

“Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.”

— Dee Henderson

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

— Salim Kumar

Someday, I hope I live in a world where people look at the heart of a person instead of the color of…

— Anonymous

Be passionate about who you are and what you stand for. Set an example for others to follow.

— Anonymous