Character Quotes · Page 297

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

— Joshua Emmet

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a…

— Jon Tenney

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

— Mary Connealy

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

— Jon Glaser

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

— Joan Greenwood

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

— Nirmala Srivastava

It's been eight years now that I have been working in Bollywood and have done everything - from item songs to character…

— Payal Rohatgi

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at…

— William Hazlitt

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what…

— Karen Allen

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big…

— Paul Klee

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me…

— R-Truth

He's not a coach who speaks to you every day. Wenger has spoken to me two or three times. He's told me…

— Granit Xhaka

I can't do the same things again, I don't repeat any character, and I am in a space I am comfortable in.…

— Nikitin Dheer

We wanted to capture Danvers' humor and flaws. For us as storytellers, those are all aspects that we really appreciate in characters.

— Ryan Fleck

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner…

— Larry Moss

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the…

— Francois Arnaud

You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you…

— Meryl Streep

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment,…

— Aristotle

I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am…

— Marshall McLuhan

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many…

— Louisa May Alcott

I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“The smear artist reveals himself by his disparate treatment of people and situations. He drapes himself in a superhero cape, claiming to…

— Sharyl Attkisson

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

— Helen Mirren

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

— Alan Rickman

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”

— Aristotle

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

— LeCrae

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”

— Thomas M. Disch

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

— Charles Hodge

I like to think of performance-wear just like theater: we're making a character come to life each night.

— Doechii

“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.”

— Thomas H. Cook

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing…

— Angela Robinson