Character Quotes · Page 234

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

— Flannery O'Connor

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

— Marcus Aurelius

“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.”

— Connie Willis

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

— Bjorn Borg

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

— Jane Austen

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

— Chris Pine

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

— Francois Rabelais

The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters,…

— Deepak Chopra

Kids are my favorite because they're so pure. They're really mean sometimes because they're super honest, but I trust them as a…

— Isabela Moner

In Asia, there aren't many characters as iconoclastic as the Monkey King. He's a trickster and contrarian character who works everywhere -…

— Rob Minkoff

“The basis of freedom as well are [sic] the restraints commonly accepted by the members of the group in which the rules…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

We all are typecast, especially when we get success by doing one thing. Whether you are an action hero, romantic hero or…

— Sunil Grover

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of…

— Derek Luke

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history…

— Thomas Hardy

Only character determines, decides and defines one's value in life and not money, power or fame; but things still have to take…

— Anuj Somany

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and…

— Darren Aronofsky

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If…

— Josh Hutcherson

You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so…

— Keri Russell

“When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases…

— Edward O. Wilson

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…

— Joan D. Chittister

I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want…

— Ryan Gosling

I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel…

— Henry Rollins

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the…

— Eckhart Tolle

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

— William Shakespeare

My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a…

— Randy Houser

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

— Mike Myers

I always felt Dot was one of those characters who should stay the same. She's a simple creature.

— June Brown

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

— Frank Auerbach

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun…

— John Barrowman

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

— Sadie Frost

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

— Reggie Lee

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.

— Grant Bowler

A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

— Woody Allen