Character Quotes · Page 277

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

— Elie Saab

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

— Brad Falchuk

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but…

— Katherine Paterson

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal…

— Albert Einstein

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore

— Alex Carey

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

— Kirsten Dunst

“This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.”

— Ben Shapiro

I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just…

— Dave Bautista

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose…

— Woodrow Wilson

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way…

— Stellan Skarsgard

“The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men…

— Oscar Wilde

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and…

— Kevin Spacey

“To be open-minded interminably…is not a virtue. It is a failure to think, a failure to learn, a failure to decide and…

— Roy Hoover

Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker,…

— Colby Tatem

I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I…

— Pete Postlethwaite

Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other…

— William A. Connelly

“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find…

— Christopher Hitchens

With Erin [from Paper Girls], I wanted to show what she might look like when she's 40, and I wanted it to…

— Cliff Chiang

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive…

— Elmore Leonard

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this…

— Lance Henriksen

Silent films are fairytales. All stories are more or less fairytales, and removing speech makes everything more universal. It makes specific characters…

— Guy Maddin

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

It's pretty cool to watch a film where the character barely says anything but you can see exactly what he's thinking.

— Noah Schnapp

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

— Sam Harris

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

— Laura Vandervoort

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

— Lauryn Hill

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

Strong is the heart of peace - Gentle are the hands of love. ~Jordan Blake Michiels~

— Jordan Blake Michiels

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.

— Philip Kitcher

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other.. I was a cartoon character. A joke.

— Ann-Margret

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

— Massimo Vignelli

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

— Travis Beacham

I'd love to play Venom. I'm a huge 'Spider-Man' fan, and Venom was the character that drew me into the comics.

— Sheamus

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

— Rhys Darby

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

— Anonymous