Character Quotes · Page 253

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

— Graham Yost

If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

— Ben Kingsley

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

— Miley Cyrus

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

— Jonathan Groff

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

— Walter J. Phillips

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

I love when someone says they have morals but never follow them,

— Kiera

The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best,…

— Samuel Smiles

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and…

— Karl Popper

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the…

— Joyce Cary

“As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”

— Steven D. Levitt

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town.…

— William Jackson

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel…

— Bertrand Russell

I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this…

— Blase J. Cupich

“Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love—even if it brings suffering.…

— Preston Sprinkle

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that…

— Lauren Lapkus

But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was…

— John Heilpern

“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the…

— Amanda Lindhout

“In this world, therefore, the dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the…

— Augustine of Hippo

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to…

— Robert Dallek

You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person…

— Kerry Washington

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

— Antonio Banderas

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

— Michael Fassbender

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or…

— Steve Buscemi

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

— Toni Morrison

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I was really good at being a bad guy; I like that role. Not being bad to people - just talking bad.

— Ric Flair

'Supernatural' was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.

— Julie McNiven

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

— Stephen Covey

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

— Peter Ustinov

Everyone messes up -- that's a given! It is how they redeem themselves that truly shows their character and integrity.

— Jessica

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

— Barry Watson

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

— Zuleikha Robinson

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel…

— Angel Olsen