Character Quotes · Page 320

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.

— Marshall McLuhan

I approach everything from the same perspective which is character and story, which then influence the musical style.

— Bear McCreary

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

— James Lee Burke

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

— Paulo Coelho

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

— Benjamin Franklin

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your…

— Martin Short

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

— Adam West

I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That…

— Declan Shalvey

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it…

— Ralph Ineson

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a…

— Alain de Botton

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're…

— Carey Mulligan

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in…

— Jude Deveraux

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's…

— George Bernard Shaw

A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is…

— Izaak Walton

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a…

— Kevin Spacey

I read Animal House and I said, "I will burn down a house to be in this. I have to be in…

— Tim Matheson

“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable…

— John Gardner

This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice. I…

— Henry Cavill

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,…

— Fernando Pessoa

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we…

— Alan Keyes

I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could…

— Jane Rule

Though I enjoy playing historical characters, it is very taxing.

— Puneet Issar

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

— Rajneesh

Dilip Kumar was meticulous and specific about each nuance of his own character. He imbibed that sense in me too.

— Manoj Kumar

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

— Jack Horner

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

— Walter Annenberg

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

— Jessica Lange

“A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.”

— Mario Puzo

I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

— Kevin Bacon

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

— David Ogden Stiers

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

It's as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.

— Brian Helgeland

“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".”

— Jeremy Grantham

The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

— Michael Jackson

“A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.”

— Henrik Ibsen