Character Quotes · Page 264

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

— William Hurt

Life is less about what you do, and more about how and why you do those things. This is called character.

— Anonymous

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

— Frances Hesselbein

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

— Walter Bagehot

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

— Ruth Gordon

“How much easier to produce moral musings than present the fresh challenge of the kingdom!”

— N.T. Wright

Being the first deaf person to play a regular character is a huge privilege and was long overdue.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

— Francois Fenelon

I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes…

— Christine Sneed

I am drawn to characters who have a deeply chaotic inner life who are putting up a mask to the rest of…

— Myha'la

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there,…

— Confucius

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person…

— Stephen Covey

I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably…

— Brendan Fraser

When I was doing character films, I would always try to find something to subvert the standard. You know, to play them…

— Thomas Jane

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say…

— Jorge Amado

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At…

— Joseph Addison

“Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a…

— Namsoon Kang

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make…

— Tobin Bell

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.…

— Adam Rapp

We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and…

— Walter Ciszek

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of…

— David Tennant

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of…

— Allegra Goodman

Beyond your regular vocational duties are responsibilities toward otherstoward the community, the state, the nation, society in general, and the Church of…

— Gordon B Hinckle

“He had become a character in a play, same story, over and over.”

— Ari Berk

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

— Robin Wright

The faculty of continual transformation... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

— Anagarika Govinda

I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality…

— Jasmine Guy

I'd say Bill Bixby's character in 'Beantown' is Tom Brokaw with a heart and a sense of humor.

— Mariette Hartley

“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.”

— J.Adam Snyder

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

I like to be in character a good few hours before I arrive for filming.

— Daniel Mays

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

— Eva Green

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

— Joan Didion

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

— Keri Russell

Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the…

— Puneet Issar

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I do a character or a project, I really want to get into the role.

— Harris Dickinson