Character Quotes · Page 262

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

— Janina Gavankar

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

— Andy Wachowski

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

— Takeshi Kitano

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

— Laura Schlessinger

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

— George A. Romero

You don't truly know someone until you see how they react to their bag of chips getting stuck in a vending machine.

— Anonymous

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then…

— Christopher Lloyd

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've…

— Michelle Gagnon

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of…

— Benjamin Haydon

I think we are moving to that place where we are being celebrated for our character, our inside, our wit. I think…

— Catriona Gray

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young…

— Clair Bee

Often people tell us that a particular relative or a neighbour is not of good character or behaviour and we believe their…

— Sanjay Mishra

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then…

— Julian Jarrold

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise…

— George Washington

I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who…

— Michael Frayn

Through the history of my records, from when I started controlling the visual, I always used lower case letters for everything, I…

— Lalah Hathaway

It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is…

— Dan Quayle

I'm interested in a lot. Like right now, I'm just really excited for 'Catching Fire' and 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2. But…

— Willow Shields

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous…

— Samuel Johnson

“The passions, moreover, become good in those who are spiritually earnest once they have wisely separated them from corporeal objects and used…

— John Behr

I'll show up at your trial as a character witness...If you think that'll help.

— James T Kirk

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

— Hermann Hesse

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

— Margaret Atwood

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

— Marva Collins

What you put into your children's heart today influences their character for tomorrow.

— Anonymous

There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.

— Harald Zwart

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

— Vin Diesel

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

— Sallust

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

— Yara Shahidi

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

— Judith Martin

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

— Richard Gere

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

— Ricky Gervais