Character Quotes · Page 269

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

— Jasper Fforde

Enthusiasm is greatest asset in the world; it is the difference between nonexistence and excellence.

— Ritu Ghatourey

You can transform into any character of any age. It's all in the mind.

— Shruti Haasan

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

— Robert E. Lee

I change my mind so much, you know? It's hard to be just one character.

— Jesse Rutherford

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

— Albert Einstein

There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and…

— Kevin Bacon

I had to unlearn everything, as Maya's character is the essence of 'Allama.' She reflects feminism, an in-depth and powerful role where…

— Meghana Raj

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because…

— Harrison Ford

It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to…

— Candice Patton

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of…

— Will Tuttle

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would…

— Lee Yoon-ki

I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what…

— Marilyn Manson

“It’s the notion that the most crucial ingredient in a team that achieves and sustains historic greatness is the character of the…

— Sam Walker

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only…

— Michel de Montaigne

The truths which are represented in England and Western countries generally, are those which refer to force of character, earnestness of purpose,…

— Keshub Chandra Sen

And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen.…

— Jerusha Hess

the older I am, the more I refuse to treat my work as therapy and the more I think it's less honest…

— Penelope Cruz

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar…

— Samuel Johnson

I think being on a show like Game of Thrones for six years, I've gone through that whole hype thing, and I…

— Finn Jones

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual…

— Archibald Rutledge

“Your Grace, I have certain moral objections to ending the world as our race knows it”?”

— Rory Ni Coileain

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

— Rachel Weisz

I think I would want to be known for playing unlikeable characters that you like anyway.

— Rachel Sennott

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

— Brent Sexton

I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

— Anna Silk

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

— George Sand

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

— Holliday Grainger

I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was…

— Sam Heughan

“aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

In the mid-'80s when the business took a big change, everybody was living their character.

— Ricky Steamboat

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

— David Hume

“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.”

— Peter Koevari

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

— George Washington

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

— Faith Baldwin