Character Quotes · Page 291

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

— Jeanne Shaheen

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

— Matt Bomer

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

— Samuel Johnson

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

— Andy Wachowski

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

— Janina Gavankar

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Have some money and your wife will know your character... try to have no money and you will know your wife's characters...

— Mercy Pheona

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too,…

— Conor McPherson

When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having…

— Michael Uslan

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way.…

— Robert Redford

When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It…

— Edmund Waller

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their…

— Henry Adams

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it…

— Michel de Montaigne

If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you,…

— Matt Ross

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and…

— James Wolcott

The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company…

— B. H. Roberts

Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not…

— Gene Lees

But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character.…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,…

— Esther Vilar

“You will either play the game of happiness by adopting a very ordinary character with your little dreams, or you will set…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The rule: when energy, 'negative' as it may be, moves without resistance, it easily sublimates and becomes raw energy of power and…

— Shai Tubali

My father told me "If you choose to let this money destroy your initiative and independence, then it will be a curse…

— Charles Koch

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make…

— Dana Carvey

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

— Thomas Lickona

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

— Takeshi Kitano

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

— Laura Schlessinger

You don't truly know someone until you see how they react to their bag of chips getting stuck in a vending machine.

— Anonymous

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

— George A. Romero

I'll show up at your trial as a character witness...If you think that'll help.

— James T Kirk

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

— Margaret Atwood

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

— Hermann Hesse

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

— Marva Collins

There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.

— Harald Zwart

What you put into your children's heart today influences their character for tomorrow.

— Anonymous

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

— Sallust