Character Quotes · Page 298

Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.

— Jonny Bairstow

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

— Debi Mazar

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the…

— Ben Nicholas

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

— Morgan Freeman

“Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.”

— Frank Peretti

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

— J. R. Bourne

The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.

— Alan Dershowitz

“Character is developed out of the choices that we make each day.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the…

— Baron de Montesquieu

For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what…

— Akhil Sharma

For everyone else who aren't fantasy fans or who don't know anything about 'The Witcher', this is something that we can experience…

— Anya Chalotra

I've kind of gotten mad over the years, reading different Punisher stories and seeing multiple Punisher movies. Nobody gets the character right.

— CM Punk

I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds…

— Rainn Wilson

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who…

— Marguerite Young

Illiberal feminists turn simple ideological disagreements, whether about the federal budget or the Second Amendment or anything else, into excuses to engage…

— Kirsten Powers

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues -…

— Edwin Way Teale

Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe…

— James Simpson

Usually, people that I like to work with are people that I believe in more than they believe in themselves, and they…

— Paul Heyman

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in…

— Jason Reynolds

It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,…

— Harry S. Truman

We see them [animals] as the Ice Age is ending and we know that actually in the long run, they're not going…

— John Leguizamo

The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes,…

— MF Doom

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things,…

— Junot Diaz

“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend…

— Shashi Tharoor

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

— Lorrie Moore

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

— Dylan Moran

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

— Karen Mills

Accents are not for comic relief anymore; they root the character to the place they're from.

— Rajiv Menon

We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

— Victor Cousin

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

— Felix Adler

The relevant question isn't, 'Is this a potential friend for me?' but, 'Is this character alive?'

— Claire Messud

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

People with good Intentions make Promises, but People with good Character KEEP them…

— Anonymous

“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”  -Natalie Clifford Barney”

— Genna Rulon

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

— Sylvester Stallone

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

— Anonymous

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

— Ayn Rand

“A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.”

— Clarice Lispector

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

— William Shakespeare

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

— Carrie Fisher