Character Quotes · Page 296

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

— Norman Lear

Your true character is most accurately measured by how u treat those who can do nothing for you!

— Ritu Ghatourey

I only want to exist as a character. I don't want people to think of the actor Lee Je-hoon when they see…

— Lee Je-hoon

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

— Joseph Addison

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

— Paul Valery

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“... how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?”

— Ingrid Bengis

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

— Mariana Klaveno

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy…

— John Travolta

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all…

— Adepero Oduye

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got…

— Joel Edgerton

When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally…

— Rachel Weisz

As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at…

— Tadao Ando

I believe in morality, which is doing right regardless of what I am told...not in religion which is doing what I am…

— Nishan Panwar

For me, I have always looked for a challenging look and I genuinely don't look at the length of the role. All…

— Vatsal Sheth

Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations…

— Rose Leslie

I want the look of a movie to be secondary. I really want people to be engaged in the story and the…

— Nicole Holofcener

Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and…

— Lorrie Moore

I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like,…

— Kumail Nanjiani

In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or…

— Roger Ebert

The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and…

— Matt Groening

When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant…

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

— Ben Mendelsohn

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

Beauty is not just having a beautiful face, it is having a good mind, a good heart and good will.

— Innah Delos Angeles

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot…

— Anonymous

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

— Paul Eldridge

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

— Michel de Montaigne

“We are the pigs who put the pigs in power. If we wanna change that, we gotta build our character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

— Amitava Kumar

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

— Theodore Parker

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

— James N. Frey

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.

— Jasmin Bhasin