Character Quotes · Page 254

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

— John Stamos

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

— William Godwin

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

— Edward Young

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his…

— Jean-Louis Barrault

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of…

— John Bytheway

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

— Darby Stanchfield

When you admit your mistake or wrong doing, it is sign of your strength and inner beauty.

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character…

— Michael Josephson

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

— Martin Seligman

Ultimately, if the character is interesting and you said that before: It doesn't matter if it's likable. That's really what it is.…

— Christian Cooke

I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people -…

— Saoirse Ronan

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it…

— David Bezmozgis

There are all these ways to write. All these ways to make a character funny... And it's been really exciting to feel…

— Eva Victor

In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In…

— Howard Gordon

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress, because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady…

— Beth Grant

“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of…

— Asvaghosa

“As part of "moral philosophy," the concept of "natural liberty" clicks easily into place. Man, as an ethical integer, is either free…

— John Chamberlain

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as…

— Ryan Gosling

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The…

— Sam Shepard

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who…

— Benjamin Crump

“Let's think about living some day in a world made of friendship, with hearts beating with duty and feeling, and people and…

— Sait Faik Abasıyanık

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

— Charlize Theron

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

— Anonymous

“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

— Dana Ashbrook

“If sarcasm were a virtue, I'd be the most righteous man alive.”

— Simeon Stoychev

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

— Anonymous

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

— Michael Shermer

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

— Emmett Kelly

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

— Eric Balfour

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

— Tommy Franks