Character Quotes · Page 239

“Characters are like kids. They want to be played with, taken on adventures. And they won't let you rest until you do.”

— Buffy Andrews

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

— Nicolas Cage

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

— Juvenal

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

— Diane Arbus

“Who but a fringe character would try to impede the unimpeachable improvement of the world?”

— Dave Eggers

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

— Bertrand Russell

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

— Ani DiFranco

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I…

— Jason Reitman

Never conclude a person by his present status. Because time has the great power to change a useless coal into a valuable…

— Anonymous

“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue…

— Steven Moffat

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

— Jack W. Hayford

Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven't seen you before, they put you in a box and they think…

— Aubrey Plaza

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,…

— William Shenstone

“What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to…

— Holly Sprink

If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in…

— David Hayter

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have…

— Derek Cianfrance

Interestingly, this character [Doctor Nash] is probably closer to me than somebody like the evil Sir Godfrey in Robin Hood or Lord…

— Mark Strong

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them.…

— Ellen Hopkins

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don’t stick to that thought, then…

— Masahiro Sakurai

Storytelling is more like a skin. You start with the outermost layer, what it's going to look like, then you kind of…

— Charlie Jane Anders

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,…

— Robert Briffault

“Excessively passionate characters have a tendency to behave poorly.”

— Osamu Dazai

Talent is important, but it's more important that you have character. Combined with talent, you can be a very good player.

— Frank de Boer

The most challenging part of being an actor is that every time you play a character, you have to start from ground…

— Himani Shivpuri

“Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.”

— Kim Clement

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

— Holbrook Jackson

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

— Om Puri

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

— Aristotle

Like floor seats is alright, and that's as far as we reach. Materialistic values, not morals, that's what we teach.

— Jean Grae

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

— Mark Twain

Real Richness is when, youre so expensive. That no one can buy your character...

— Ritu

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

— Walter Koenig

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm aware that I can only play someone who looks my age, is pasty white and can't see what they're doing!

— Chris McCausland

I think I'm the best fit for characters that have a lot going on inside.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee