Character Quotes · Page 270

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

— Narendra Modi

“...although stories are about characters, they're mostly about "character". There's a difference.”

— Morgan Parker

I love being the bad guy. I think that the audience prefer me as a bad guy.

— Alberto Del Rio

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

— Marc Webb

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

— Luc de Clapiers

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through…

— Bernard Gilpin

We looked at Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division. He was a very ultra cool, non-expressive character. Cutler is confident, but…

— Andrew Gower

Before judging a person who is provoking stronger and stronger against its passive character towards the world today; first ask yourself if…

— Alexander Fennis

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of…

— Edmund Burke

There are so many roles that actors like Nawazuddin Siddiqui or Manoj Bajpayee or Irrfan have done. And they make every character…

— Hiten Tejwani

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people…

— Marc Jacobs

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a…

— Holly Hunter

I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm…

— Robert Pattinson

Prayer is self-discipline. The effort to realize the presence and power of God stretches the sinews of the soul and hardens its…

— Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite…

— Guido von List

As for Amitabh Bachchan, I worked with him in 'Reshma Aur Shera' where he played a mute character. While shooting I noticed…

— Waheeda Rehman

“This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look…

— Aleister Crowley

“According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic…

— Piper Kerman

It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into…

— Johnny Depp

The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like…

— George R. R. Martin

[Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming and…

— Mark Gatiss

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

— Shaunie O'Neal

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

— Rachel Scott

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

— Karl Kraus

Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.

— Gary Cahill

As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.

— Neha Sharma

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished…

— Sallust

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

— Maggie Shayne

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

— George Henry Lewes

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

— Ray Bradbury

The temperament and habit of a person inside and outside of his/her character once he gets to his/her companion.

— Innah Delos Angeles