Character Quotes · Page 261

I used to watch 'Aliens', and I just found Sigourney Weaver's character so empowering.

— Katie Melua

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

— Norman Lear

It is in the qualities of character of self-respect and trustworthiness that our value to our friends and community lies.

— Anonymous

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

— Douglas Trumbull

Your true character is most accurately measured by how u treat those who can do nothing for you!

— Ritu Ghatourey

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

— Joseph Addison

I only want to exist as a character. I don't want people to think of the actor Lee Je-hoon when they see…

— Lee Je-hoon

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

— Paul Valery

I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character…

— Corin Nemec

“Wallace was just the sort who blends into the background of the school photo (or the greeting line at the cotillion) but…

— Amor Towles

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the…

— Aldis Hodge

[Producers] promised me they wouldn't do that sort of "defining nature of my character is that Laurel is Latina [in How to…

— Karla Souza

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just…

— Zach Galifianakis

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their…

— Jim Butcher

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad…

— David Duchovny

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions…

— L. Sprague de Camp

It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most…

— Kim Coates

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter…

— Thomas Jefferson

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't.…

— Hans Matheson

I'll never approach a part in the same way again. Piaf taught me so much. In terms of my work, I think…

— Marion Cotillard

To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor,…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Never put yourself in the position of regretting what you did or did not try to do. Every experience whether it is…

— Edwin Mamerto

“... how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?”

— Ingrid Bengis

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

— Ben Mendelsohn

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

— Mariana Klaveno

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

— Morgan Freeman

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

— Miranda Otto

“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

— Matt Bomer

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

— Jeanne Shaheen

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

— Samuel Johnson

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have some money and your wife will know your character... try to have no money and you will know your wife's characters...

— Mercy Pheona

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make…

— Dana Carvey

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

— Thomas Lickona