Character Quotes · Page 245

It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window.

— LZ Granderson

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

— Anonymous

Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered…

— Merikare

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

— Leon Wieseltier

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

— Abdullah ibn Mubarak

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

— Sigmund Freud

I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.

— Eric McCormack

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

— Robert Herrick

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a…

— Carroll O'Connor

That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time…

— Asa Butterfield

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what…

— Felicity Jones

I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind…

— Alia Shawkat

As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as…

— David Dayan Fisher

If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and…

— Amber Heard

Hypocrisy¦.th ats all we see and do today!! It may be helpful in fooling others and creating a false impression, but dragging…

— Senoraroy

I was definitely a fan of Robert Patricks character in T2. I was just really awed by his performance and the complete…

— Kristanna Loken

[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted…

— David Limbaugh

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access…

— Zephyr Teachout

There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance…

— William Howard Taft

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is…

— Brion James

I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm…

— Roy Kesey

I've made movies on every part of the spectrum, and you do understand when you go into certain movies that you're trying…

— Judd Apatow

Sometimes when I get up after writing, I'm surprised at how my body feels. Suddenly I'm not a lanky, hungry young boy…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.…

— Janice Rogers Brown

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

— Bob McDonnell

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

— Ted Malloch

“I have come to believe that contentment is a virtue we can aspire to rather than a state we can achieve.”

— Dave Bruno

“We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.”

— Fennel Hudson

“... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?”

— Kirstin van Dyke

Character imperfection is the important thing to keep them from being superheroes.

— Chad Stahelski

“Great words, golden promises, built up exploits plus lack of character equals low down dirty fraud.”

— Jayce O'Neal

“Gifting may gain a man a platform, but character is what gives him a voice.”

— Matt Boswell

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

— Cassandra Clare

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

— Madame de Stael

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I used to try to carry the weight of my character around with me, but I just can't do that now, it's…

— Helen Baxendale

Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.

— Michael Josephson

If you have a positive character, you are more equipped to guide and control your future.

— Lena

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

— Madonna Ciccone

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

— Ron Cephas Jones