Character Quotes · Page 314

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

— Carl Bernstein

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

— Foxy Brown

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

— Albert Einstein

Never judge any person by his answers or questions but by his nature of character solely.

— Anonymous

“Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.”

— Evan Esar

“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them

— Carlton Cuse

More than anything, I wanted the role of Kitty Russell, even though some people couldn't see me as that character.

— Amanda Blake

I'm not there to be the token sexy girl. I don't know that I would ever be able to pull that off.…

— Emma Stone

It's rewarding for me to have people know me as two very different characters. I think when you see people as one…

— Matt McGorry

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what…

— Christina Hendricks

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen.…

— Dwight L. Moody

Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality... Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the…

— Abraham Lincoln

I literally fell into this business. I never came down one day and said, "Atticus' thought of the day...I want to be…

— Atticus Shaffer

'Divorce' was kind of strange because I was going in and out of doing it while doing different movies! So, I kept…

— Alex Wolff

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though…

— Ron Rash

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the…

— Harrison Ford

“Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the magistrate is not enough: there needs protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and…

— John Stuart Mill

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that…

— Frances Wright

The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling,…

— Will Smith

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted…

— George Matthew Adams

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

— Jeffrey Wright

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

— Danny Pudi

You can tell the size of a persons character by the size of the things they allow to upset them.

— Anonymous

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”

— Sophocles

“Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

— Chadwick Boseman

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

— Emily Blunt

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

— Annie Potts

“The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.”

— Arthur F. Holmes

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.

— Hugo Hamilton

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

— Ruta Sepetys

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

— Billy Corgan