Character Quotes · Page 285

Befikre' is not just about two characters. There is another very prominent third character, and that is Paris.

— Vaani Kapoor

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike!

— Oscar Wilde

“A time when morality will keep shifting, you need something that stands straight and can stay in place.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”

— Charles Darwin

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

— Diana Rigg

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.

— Priyanka Chopra

Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.

— Ian McShane

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

— C. S. Lewis

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an…

— Stewart O'Nan

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible…

— Austin Phelps

'Through sickness and through health' sounds so simple on your wedding day, but in reality, they become significant words that are a…

— Yolanda Hadid

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they…

— Ellen Schreiber

I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do,…

— Neal Adams

All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no…

— Dee Hock

I always thought, as a kid, if you - and the reason that I sort of stayed away from doing one character…

— Harry Shearer

“Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The…

— Thomas Watson

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions…

— John Galsworthy

“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that…

— Ryan Holiday

I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I…

— Gale Harold

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was…

— Ami McKay

I realized that acting is not all about receiving people's applause or cheer. It is about delivering the right character to the…

— Liu Yifei

I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what…

— Clint Eastwood

I see it as a massive challenge in many ways. To make it authentic. To make the character live and breathe in…

— Andrew Garfield

“Our obsession of being accepted by others has turned us into a society that has No shame . No love. No remorse…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

— William M. Evarts

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

— Ajay Naidu

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

— Josh Hartnett

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

— Bertrand Russell

Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall…

— Anne Lamott

Spock is a huge mythical character that even people who aren't 'Star Trek' fans like.

— Mary Wiseman

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

— Katherine Langford

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

— John Cazale

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

— Horace Bushnell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

— Clark Gregg

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

— Ralph W Sockman

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

— Owen Feltham

I would be glad to share the screen with anyone as long as I love my character and the story.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.

— Maxine Peake