Character Quotes · Page 292

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

— Vin Diesel

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

— Yara Shahidi

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

— Judith Martin

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

— Richard Gere

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

— Aristotle

Persistence, patience and perseverance are virtue of person with strong positive attitude.

— Anil Sinha

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I…

— Orlando Bloom

I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out…

— Amanda Plummer

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than…

— Garret Dillahunt

For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I…

— Jordana Spiro

Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is…

— Anonymous

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten…

— Michael Ironside

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The only prescription for morality is this: Remember that every woman could have been your mother, every girl could be your daughter.…

— Anonymous

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of…

— Alberto Manguel

Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much…

— Dolph Lundgren

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds…

— Aristotle

“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very…

— Nathaniel Branden

Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch…

— Anne Rice

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth…

— William Shakespeare

“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and…

— G.K. Chesterton

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

— Ricky Gervais

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

— Marilynne Robinson

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

— Joseph Addison

What you have don't make you the better person your character does

— Ms Kee

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

— William Shakespeare

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

— Chester Gould

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

— Constance Zimmer

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

— G. Stanley Hall

The American system of checks and balances is only as strong as the leaders who have the character and courage to enforce…

— Neera Tanden

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

— Lee Pace

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

— Joan D. Chittister

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

— Ameen Rihani

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

— George W. Bush