Character Quotes · Page 237

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

— Gordon R. Dickson

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

— Ruth Gordon

I do a 15-minute meditation and breathing exercise every day after shooting. That helps me to come out of character.

— Mohit Raina

I don't really overthink my characters. The camera comes on, and I am on.

— Mithila Palkar

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I like to do a lot of research for my films and live my character.

— Amy Jackson

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

— Philip James Bailey

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

— Radhanath Swami

Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but…

— John Adams

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we…

— Peter Kreeft

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath…

— Charlie Munger

When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking…

— David Bryan

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to…

— Anne Parillaud

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them…

— Abraham Lincoln

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is…

— Lorraine Toussaint

I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call…

— Richard Ford

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly…

— Warren Ellis

“There is a violent contrast here, in this country, between the growing abstractness of a unclear universe and a primary, visceral, unbounded…

— Anonymous

I think in television you have an ever-closer bond to the audience because they're inviting you into your living rooms and their…

— Gale Anne Hurd

If you ever ask me what my all-time dream character is, my answer will be Mia Tansen, the great composer-musician in Hindustani…

— Jackie Shroff

All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that…

— H. L. Mencken

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Forget all labels and simply live as a human, and you'll have all the morality in you - this morality is text-less…

— Abhijit Naskar

The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private…

— King Hussein I

All That GLITTERS is NOT GOLD. So, Do Not Be Deceived By Things Or Offers That Appear To Be Attractive.

— Pacifiersucker

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

— Irving Stone

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

— Alyson Noel

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

— Anonymous

I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.

— Daniel Mays

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

— J. I. Packer

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

— Twyla Tharp

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

— Karen Horney

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers

“A relationship built on lies and trickery will not last; only truthfulness can uphold a relationship”

— idowu koyenikan

Giving back to those who are less fortunate shows great character and is the right thing to do.

— Cynthia Bailey

A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking.

— Lily Gladstone

It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

What I try to do in writing any character is to put myself in his position.

— Bill Watterson

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

— Ambrose Bierce