Character Quotes · Page 276

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

— Cary Elwes

I don't mind playing a supporting character if it has some substance.

— Parvathy

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

— Oscar Wilde

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

— Sam Riley

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

We're very sure to stay in character, to experience the Sharknado as though it was real. That's what acting is.

— Ian Ziering

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

— James Montgomery Boice

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express…

— Kirk Douglas

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the…

— Oswald Chambers

There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I…

— Paris Hilton

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of…

— John Bowring

We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it…

— Peter Paige

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures…

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Action flows from character, but character is not so much a matter of innate disposition as of training in the ways of…

— Richard B. Hays

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but…

— Andy Andrews

“..:It is dangerous to believe that someone will take your place in a corporarion or business just because he/she is releated to…

— Rafael Garcia

I'd really like people to see me as a real actress, which I am, but they don't. It's hard to get them…

— Marianne Faithfull

The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves,…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,…

— Ronald Reagan

“What conclusion is to be drawn from this paradox so worthy of being born in our time; and what will become of…

— Jean Jaques Rousseau

“In morals, as in physics, the stream cannot rise higher than its source. Christianity raises men from earth, for it comes from…

— John Henry Newman

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

— Mahima Chaudhry

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I've wrestled just about everybody there is to wrestle, done just about every character reincarnation that I can come up with.

— Goldust

If one evil eats at the moral fiber of human life in this world that could be termed as Mother of Evils,…

— T Joseph Benziger

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

— Brian Tracy

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

— Tennessee Williams

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

— Jennifer Hale

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

— Conrad Hilton

Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.

— Frank Shamrock

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

“A conversa impregnada de vaidade e o pretensiosismo são raramente compatíveis com a virtude.”

— Confucius

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

— Elif Batuman

Honestly, being a liar or user is nothing to be proud of. If you think it is your morals are questionable.

— Sonya Parker

The character of our language defines us, and dictionaries say as much about us as about the way we speak.

— Susie Dent

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

— Ally Carter