Character Quotes · Page 308

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

— Amy Smart

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

Very rarely does a character or role become larger than the actor.

— Arshad Warsi

I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.

— Robert Lepage

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

— Anonymous

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

— Muhammad Yunus

It is with passion that I love my job. But it is with character that I am able to keep looking forward.…

— Claudio Ranieri

Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc...) and their truths don't "count" as either present…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the…

— Novalis

I'm often asked where my nickname 'Kun' comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on…

— Sergio Aguero

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to…

— Philip Sidney

I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the…

— Hillary Clinton

I have a very special love for all of those actors [in Fringe] and I'll miss them.Over the five years, we were…

— John Noble

We confuse insurance with our moral obligation to provide health-care services to people. And what we try to do is finance our…

— Ron Williams

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.” “Why?” “Because…

— Oscar Wilde

“The human race will possess the technology to create God. Why not build this being? Emerging technologies such as nanotechnological molecular manufacturers…

— Mitchell Heisman

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun…

— Yara Shahidi

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate…

— George William Russell

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by…

— Jodi Picoult

There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in…

— Ayn Rand

When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that…

— Alex Hirsch

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

— Keri Russell

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

— Lizzy Caplan

Fuck Your Morals. Drink away your sorrows. Live your life and be happy. Don't think about tomorrow. It's all about you.

— Lynn

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

— Lyman Abbott

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

— James Hillman

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

— Haruki Murakami

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

— Tom Hiddleston

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

— Ashton Kutcher

Have courage to follow your inner instinct and intuition. It is your inner belief which makes you a person of character.

— Anil Sinha

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

— Anonymous

I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.

— Olivia Williams

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

— Andrew Lincoln

A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right…

— Michael Josephson

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.

— Kevin Spacey

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

— Robin Day

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

— John Howe