Character Quotes · Page 255

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

— Victoria Justice

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

— Steve Burton

That is something that's been a cornerstone for me for forever. I want to play multilayered, complex characters.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

— Geena Davis

“... You saved me from a life filled with absurd prejudice and morality and allowed me to grow...”

— Julie Maroh

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

— Jacqueline Bisset

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

— Ross Lynch

“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think the world is kind of catching on that gender roles aren't so necessary and becoming a lot less defined and…

— Mia Goth

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write,…

— Aaron Sorkin

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a…

— Isaac Watts

There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author.…

— Anonymous

It's such an easy thing with characters who are the friends of the main person to make their love subpar or not…

— Jaz Sinclair

In 'A Few Best Men,' I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing…

— Rebel Wilson

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every…

— Victor LaValle

Both my assistant and my wife tell me that during battle scenes, when a character is making a 'guwaa' sort of face,…

— Akira Toriyama

No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is…

— Wilfred Grenfell

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire…

— George Saunders

“You make the choice concerning who you associate with on a daily basis. Whenever there are people around you who continually gossip…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a…

— Rachael Taylor

“Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties? First, those who manage well the circumstances…

— Isocrates

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite…

— John Stuart Mill

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in…

— Emma Goldman

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

— Terry Goodkind

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

— Don Roff

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

— Tacitus

“Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more.”

— Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

“holiness is not the accumulation of virtues. Holiness is being possessed by God.”

— John Riccardo

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long…

— Harry Graham

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Beauty is not just having a beautiful face, it is having a good mind, a good heart and good will.

— Innah Delos Angeles

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot…

— Anonymous

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

— Michel de Montaigne

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

— Paul Eldridge

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

— Amitava Kumar

“We are the pigs who put the pigs in power. If we wanna change that, we gotta build our character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

— Theodore Parker