Character Quotes · Page 260

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

I will be seen as a software engineer in 'Betaludu.' My character is totally different from what I have played in the…

— Vijay Antony

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.

— Sprague Grayden

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

— Adrian Grenier

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

— John Hodgman

When I come up with a character, I know how he lives and breathes.

— Harry Enfield

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through.…

— Tess Gerritsen

Roshan Sherchan is a grey character and that's the challenge. He's not all bad. Even though people will hate him, they'll still…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who…

— Issa Rae

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all…

— Morgan Freeman

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others,…

— Jaggi Vasudev

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each…

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept…

— Imre Lakatos

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and…

— Sanaa Lathan

I love my situation as a spectator. The actors are only a little bit ahead of the audience. The audience discovers the…

— Richard Sammel

Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between…

— David Bezmozgis

'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's…

— Julia Holter

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose…

— John Donne

One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're…

— Kristen Stewart

“There is no endowment in man or woman, that is not tallied in you. There is no virtue, no beauty in man…

— Brandi Leigh Hall

All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself…

— Ellen G. White

War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of…

— Robert Southey

I love Loki. I love so many of the comic runs with his character as well.

— Kate Herron

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

— Amala Paul

When you take on a character you try and lose yourself into it because you want to be less self-conscious.

— Adrian Lester

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

— Anonymous

Coming off a pretty significant injury for me with my shooting shoulder, I learned a lot about my character.

— Patty Mills

Great, now I’ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.

— Ilona Andrews

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

— Jean Paul

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

— Joe Zee

I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

— Kurtwood Smith

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

— Alice Hoffman

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

— Seth Gabel

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

— Colleen Ballinger

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

— Geena Davis