Character Quotes · Page 312

To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

— Rajkummar Rao

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

— Felicity Jones

I play John Wayne in every part regardless of the character, and I've been doing okay, haven't I?

— John Wayne

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just…

— Tinashe

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke

“In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”

— Amit Kalantri

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was…

— Dan Chaon

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've…

— Denis Diderot

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or…

— Joel Kinnaman

“Moral deliberation has to be somewhere in the brain, after all. It’s not going to be in the foot or the stomach,…

— Paul Bloom

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just…

— Dennis Hopper

The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is…

— Madame de Stael

“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it.…

— N.T. Wright

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away;…

— Augustus William Hare

The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother…

— Drew Fuller

“What our generation is in danger of forgetting is not only that morals are of necessity a phenomenon of individual conduct but…

— F. A. Hayek

You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers…

— Gilbert Gottfried

Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds…

— Elizabeth Carter

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on…

— Andy Serkis

Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,…

— Aristotle

Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to…

— Sathya Sai Baba

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

— Thomas Jefferson

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

— Samuel Johnson

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

— Bret Stephens

“One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.”

— Raheel Farooq

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with…

— Joel Kinnaman

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

— Nicole Kidman

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

— Anonymous

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

— John Green

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

— Charles Bukowski

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

— Ayn Rand

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

— Edward Abbey

“Being boring is as likely as being interesting to make one impossible to forget.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I thought, 'Could I ever call myself ugly as a character?' And it was like, 'Yeah, I'd love to be able to…

— Kathy Burke

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United…

— Edmund Randolph