Character Quotes · Page 232

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

— Theodore Parker

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

— Jon Glaser

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

— Mary Connealy

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a…

— Jon Tenney

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

— Joshua Emmet

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

— William Henry Harrison

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in…

— Seth Gordon

My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to…

— Mahesh Babu

It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not…

— Xavier Gens

A character has a distinctive voice - you should be able to hear them in your head and conduct a conversation with…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to…

— Arthur Miller

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain…

— Ming-Dao Deng

There are two elements to nailing a job interview: form and substance. 'Form' describes the outer layer of your character - your…

— Neil Blumenthal

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.…

— E. O. Wilson

I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries…

— Gustave Flaubert

In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside…

— Gina Carano

Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's…

— Johnny Depp

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm…

— Harold Pinter

The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe.…

— Adrien Brody

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

— Helen Mirren

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

— Joan Greenwood

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

— LeCrae

“Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”

— Aristotle

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

— Alan Rickman

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

— Charles Hodge

“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”

— Thomas M. Disch

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing…

— Angela Robinson

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

— Jonny Bairstow

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

— Benedict Cumberbatch