Character Quotes · Page 279

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

— Will Gluck

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

— Jami Attenberg

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

— Aristotle

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

— Anonymous

America has but one main problem -- the character of the men and women it shall produce.

— Calvin Coolidge

“There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules…

— Daniel Kemp

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do…

— Kevin Hart

Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety…

— Plato

“Feeling right” is about living the life that’s right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It’s also about virtue:…

— Gretchen Rubin

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the…

— Henry Ford

America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

Because I came to acting quite late, I kind of think one of the few attributes that I do have is that…

— Liam Cunningham

“Moral relativism be damned, Riz. There's them, and there's us, and we fight and die for us and that's it.' Holly "Bang-Bang"…

— Charlie Flowers

Without my church, without my teaching of good morals, I wouldn't be the Jabari that I am today. It's the foundation that…

— Jabari Parker

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great…

— J. Robbins

OK, so we all know that 'Borat' is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) - but…

— Mark Fisher

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the…

— Max Horkheimer

The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they…

— Sandra Dallas

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along…

— Dean Koontz

TV becomes easier because you get to spend time with that character. It's going to go on for a while, and the…

— Lamorne Morris

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me…

— Condola Rashad

With movies, you come and go as an actor, especially if you are not the lead, from week to week. You don't…

— Amber Stevens

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

— Tahereh Mafi

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

— Sam Rockwell

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

— Anonymous

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

— Vincent de Paul

The Actual growth in a persons life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income…

— Anonymous

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

— John Lewis

If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.

— Kerry Bishe

Our true character is that person we become when no one is watching.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

— Marianne Moore

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

— Ryan Gosling

A Tongue Has No Bones But It Can Hurt Someone's Feelings. So, Always Be Conscious And Be Wise On What You'll say...

— Pacifiersucker

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

— Jeremy Renner

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

— C. S. Lewis