Character Quotes · Page 310

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

Some people are dead but their character kept them alive, while others are alive but their character killed them.

— Anonymous

“In a man, you have to look for character and security, going beyond his age.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

— Shelley Long

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

— John Adams

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

— Henry Cloud

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

— Nick Thune

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

— Forest Whitaker

“If you have any characters that you want to do seemingly unrealistic things, things that feel too much like pushing the boundaries…

— Michael Milton

I love theater, and I love that you have to be so intensely in the character and you have to hit that…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect…

— Bertrand Russell

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by…

— William Ellery Channing

There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great…

— Clinton Rossiter

I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I would love to come back…

— Ray Park

What interests Sam Mendes are characters and relationships, and he was a genius at giving you the freedom to create the type…

— Naomie Harris

Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than…

— Ana Ortiz

Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped…

— Richard Paul Evans

“Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a…

— Baha'u'llah

“What is it to make a moral judgement, or to argue about an ethical issue, or to live according to ethical standards?…

— Peter Singer

I think everything that happened to me with splitting up with my wife, leaving my business and I was quite an influential…

— Jay Blades

“What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics. Just as the notion that "anything I…

— Ayn Rand

“The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn’t offer anything besides itself.”

— Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of…

— Richard Gere

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

— Nicholas Braun

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

— Michael Shannon

I am confident about who I am as a person, my character, and as a human being.

— Masai Ujiri

Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

— Joseph Joubert

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

— Ace Frehley

“A chief cause of worry and unhappiness in life is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.”

— Maralee McKee

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

— Washington Allston

You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so…

— J. B. Smoove

I look for a layered character who has problems and issues - which, by the way, we all do have.

— Charlie Heaton

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

— Delmore Schwartz

The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

— Joseph Campbell

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

— Stewart O'Nan

“six fundamental virtues: love, wisdom, truth, goodness, mercy and justice. “Through”

— Gena Showalter