Character Quotes · Page 321

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

— Robin Williams

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

— Mahatma Gandhi

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

— John Dryden

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

— Anonymous

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

— Robert Boswell

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

— Dustin Clare

I know people with PTSD, and it's very real and very hard. But it doesn't change your core character.

— Taya Kyle

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the…

— Martin Buber

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats…

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm someone's mom, but if I took the mom away, if I took Top Model away, like, who is Eva? Who am…

— Eva Marcille

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty…

— Sigrid Undset

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who…

— Carl Lewis

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with…

— Sydney Pollack

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

— Charles Baudelaire

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even…

— Lajos Egri

“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has…

— José Saramago

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an…

— Dan Chaon

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can…

— Denis Leary

I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is…

— Angelina Grimke

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,…

— John Carroll

David's [Cunningham] a very interesting character. He has more integrity than is good for him. So, everything he did after that sort…

— David Toop

Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading…

— Colin Farrell

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

— Brooklyn Sudano

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

— Raymond Burr

I think I'm really obsessed with characters that lose their face, in a way. I think it's very moving.

— Bertrand Bonello

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

— Santino Fontana

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

— Michael Rapaport

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

— Vince Lombardi

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

— Michaela Watkins

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

— John Nolte

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

— Sylvester Stallone

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

— Alan Tudyk

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

— James Wan

For an actor, that is the biggest achievement, to be known by your character name.

— Madalsa Sharma

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

— Richard M. Weaver

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

— William J. Clinton

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

— Evan Esar