Character Quotes · Page 266

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

— Katie Cassidy

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson

“Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.”

— Harold Edmund Stearns

Once a particular character becomes a hit, a slew of similar ones are offered to the actor.

— Arshad Warsi

When you play a character for so long, it's easy to get disengaged, and it becomes mundane and routine.

— Tyler Posey

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

— Vincent de Paul

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

— Joseph Addison

I do come alive more at night and that's always been in my character.

— Sarah Harding

In my entire career, only two actors challenged me as villain in my films. One is Raghuvaran's character of Mark Antony in…

— Rajinikanth

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not…

— Matt Groening

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we…

— Brené Brown

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare…

— C. S. Lewis

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of…

— Nicole Krauss

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five…

— Sue Halpern

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show.…

— Nancy Kerrigan

I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer…

— Thomas Beddoes

I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It…

— Laura Marling

My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself…

— Danzy Senna

Legend' is a stylised film. The character I play is a complete egoist. He cannot tolerate anyone touching him or slapping him.…

— Jagapathi Babu

It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it…

— Cate Marvin

“I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is…

— Theodora Goss

I don't think there is anything wrong with a man who wants to give credit to the Lord, but I don't think…

— Billy Graham

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

— John Milton

No role is big or small; every character does its magic and brings its own connect with the audience.

— Angad Bedi

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Crime exists because immorality is wicked and morality is weak.”

— Amit Kalantri

Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

— Graham Greene

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be…

— Anonymous

I think the evolution of Arya Stark's character has been incredible.

— Masaba Gupta

“There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

— Samuel Butler

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

— Herbert H. Lehman

I am open to do a Telugu, Tamil or Malayali movie. If I get a good script and good character, I will…

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

— Lucas Till

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

— Sri Aurobindo

“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

— Anonymous