Character Quotes · Page 258

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

— Lysa TerKeurst

While it's great that some actors can do any character with conviction, I'd probably look odd doing anything unreal.

— Waheeda Rehman

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

— Carrie Fisher

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

— William Shakespeare

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

— Ayn Rand

“A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.”

— Clarice Lispector

“On Love - Men love women for their virtues. Women love men in spite of their flaws.”

— Marsha Hinds

We need a fearless fighter in the White House - not just to win this election, but also to restore the character…

— Carly Fiorina

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is…

— Jeremy Irons

Any time you're playing a character, you're seeing the world through their lens and their experience. That extends to how they experience…

— Noah Reid

All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching…

— Mads Mikkelsen

There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting…

— Ana Navarro

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my…

— Salman Rushdie

I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no…

— Steven Knight

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding…

— William Alcott

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between…

— Nate Silver

The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially,…

— Jaime Camil

Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've…

— Anonymous

My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with…

— Geena Davis

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the…

— Philip Rieff

“It is frequently alleged that all human meaning, morality, and values can be nothing more than whatever human beings of different times…

— Brad S. Gregory

“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality…

— Virchand Gandhi

I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of…

— K. M. Soehnlein

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

— Brand Blanshard

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

— Andrew Haigh

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

— Reid Hoffman

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

— Edward Abbey

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

— Antoine Rivarol

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote…

— Billy Collins

The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.

— Keira Knightley

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

— John Jay Chapman

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

— Lord Chesterfield

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

— Puneet Issar

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

— Audrey Hepburn

Character is like a pregnancy, you cannot hide it no matter what you do.

— Kontihene

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

— Brion James