Character Quotes · Page 294

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

— George Eliot

I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

— Julie Delpy

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

— Steve Buscemi

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

— Melissa de la Cruz

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

— David McCullough

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

— Charles Spurgeon

Something I love about 'Teen Wolf' is that my character is written in as just a normal girl. She could have been…

— Arden Cho

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she…

— Kate Zambreno

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

— Garrison Keillor

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer…

— Peter Jackson

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether…

— Ophelia Lovibond

Then there’s Isabel Leonard, as the male character, Sesto. Her voice has the rich, fragrant depth of sandalwood and she looks so…

— Richard Ouzounian

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes…

— Charles Dickens

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune…

— William Hazlitt

Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

You have to think of each stage of the movie and how it progresses, get into the state of mind of the…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were…

— Geena Davis

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.…

— Claude Chabrol

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am…

— Robert Emmet

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was…

— Terry Pratchett

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly…

— Matt Mullenweg

the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to…

— Rebecca Harding Davis

Character is like a pregnancy, you can never hide it no matter what you do.

— Latest

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.

— Ray Fisher

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

— Nithya Menen

LOVE, The only virtue that can be divided endlessly and still not be diminished;

— Nikhil Saluja

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

— Fawn M. Brodie

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

— Paul Newman

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character…

— Aaron Paul

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

— Burgess Meredith

Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time

— Condoleezza Rice

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

“Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right…”

— Navonne Johns

Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit.

— Anil Sinha

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.

— Sprague Grayden