Character Quotes · Page 293

Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

— Alex Gibney

I think about the character in any new offer that comes to me. Only if I like it do I go ahead…

— Regina Cassandra

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

— Lecrae

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

— Dylan McDermott

I always quite like the idea of casting against type when I'm looking for and trying to understand who a character is.

— Andrew Haigh

We need a fearless fighter in the White House - not just to win this election, but also to restore the character…

— Carly Fiorina

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

— Brand Blanshard

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the…

— Jane Cleland

I truly believe that recovery requires some kind of stasis where you have to sit and internalize and lick your wounds and…

— Justin Rutledge

I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying…

— Katie Cassidy

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable…

— Matthew Arnold

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or…

— J. Oswald Sanders

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another…

— Paul Weller

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and…

— Hippolyte Taine

I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female…

— Felicity Jones

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty…

— Mike Leigh

“The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They…

— Oscar Wilde

Mickey Rourke's character in 'The Wrestler' - that was my dad, that was my uncles, that was so many members of my…

— Dwayne Johnson

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm…

— Linus Pauling

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.'…

— Jason Alexander

“That passivity in me has been the core of it all, the real evil. That weakness, that refusal to compromise a fractured…

— Anne Rice

“First are those which free us from the strongest passions: laziness, love of comfort, sensuality, and pride. These virtues—fortitude, detachment, chastity, and…

— Juan Luis Lorda

What we love about the character Katie, played by Katy Mixon, is that she feels very universal and very relatable. And what…

— Channing Dungey

The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.

— Keira Knightley

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

— John Jay Chapman

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote…

— Billy Collins

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

— Antoine Rivarol

A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

— Edward Abbey

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

— Reid Hoffman

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

— Brion James

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

— Audrey Hepburn

Character is like a pregnancy, you cannot hide it no matter what you do.

— Kontihene

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

— Puneet Issar

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

— Lord Chesterfield

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

— Anonymous

His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity…

— John Bartholomew Gough

It's what you do during and after your trials that builds character.

— Porsha Williams