Character Quotes · Page 307

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

— Kurt Vonnegut

More than the hair and the makeup, what is important is to feel the character.

— Mrunal Thakur

Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

— Dan Barker

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

— Adam Driver

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

— Eric Hoffer

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

— Stefan Kapicic

Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no…

— Marquis de Lafayette

I have high expectations for myself - as an athlete, as a man, as an individual - and wrestling has helped me…

— Jordan Burroughs

“young people no longer “believe in the old standards and authorities, and they’re not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a…

— Sarah Churchwell

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation:…

— Hannah More

What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character…

— Rick Warren

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most…

— Roger Deakins

“All the things that make the character of an individual great, comes from the moral values he or she possesses. Those are…

— Ellen J. Barrier

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has…

— Oscar Wilde

“The ideology of liberal humanism found expression in the earliest reviews of Hardy’s writing and remained a dominant force until the explosion…

— Geoffrey Harvey

In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a…

— Anton Chekhov

I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the…

— Jessica Chastain

“Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which…

— Raymond Queneau

“To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and…

— Immanuel Kant

I think that Spider-Man is a part of our culture. He's a perennial character. He's something that's constantly reexamined and there are…

— Marc Webb

“Chastity and moral purity were qualities McCandless mulled over long and often. Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with…

— Jon Krakauer

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a…

— Kenan Malik

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

“My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”

— Mark Lawrence

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

— Mike White

I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.

— John Hurt

When a man sets to imitate another man but not his morals, then he have decided to add mess to the society.

— Terry Mark

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

— Napoleon Hill

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

— Jacques Maritain

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

— Sara Zarr

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

— Aristotle

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

— Maria Edgeworth

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.

— Bryan Konietzko

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

— Antonio Banderas

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

— Eric Heiden

I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it.

— Michael Pitt