Character Quotes · Page 300

Everyone messes up -- that's a given! It is how they redeem themselves that truly shows their character and integrity.

— Jessica

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

— Peter Ustinov

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

— Zuleikha Robinson

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

— Barry Watson

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.

— John Stamos

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel…

— Angel Olsen

It's our job as actors to make it look like it's not manufactured. If you have two actors who understand their characters…

— Henry Cavill

My approach is literally what is being told in the scene. I try to be as real as possible, and I try…

— Zoe Perry

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is…

— Peter Bondra

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

— Kelli O'Hara

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or…

— Jaggi Vasudev

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top…

— Jon Lovitz

We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, 'Mindhorn,' set on the Isle of Man, that every…

— Julian Barratt

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the…

— Santiago Calatrava

When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would…

— Eve Ensler

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is…

— Bob Einstein

I think Wonder Woman is a very difficult character to crack. More difficult than Superman, who is also more difficult than Batman.…

— David S. Goyer

“Jesus' own moral discipline was rooted in His discipleship to the Father. To His disciples He explained, “My meat is to do…

— D. Todd Christofferson

The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who…

— Lyndon LaRouche

“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future,…

— Carl Sagan

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success.…

— Killer Mike

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his…

— Jean-Louis Barrault

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.

— Edward Young

The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

— William Godwin

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of…

— John Bytheway

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

— Charlize Theron

When you admit your mistake or wrong doing, it is sign of your strength and inner beauty.

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

— Darby Stanchfield

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

— Anonymous

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

— Anonymous

“If sarcasm were a virtue, I'd be the most righteous man alive.”

— Simeon Stoychev

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

— Dana Ashbrook

“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

— Michael Shermer