Character Quotes · Page 331

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

— Anonymous

At first you struggle to earn name, fame and reputation, then you struggle to maintain it and at last you struggle to…

— Anonymous

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail…

— Zoë Heller

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

— Paul Haggis

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

— George Eliot

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

— Neil Cross

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.”

— Annabel Lyon

“If you sow knowledge, you will reap wisdom. If you sow virtue, you will reap honor. If you sow kindness, you will…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots…

— Stanley Tucci

I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still…

— Jaume Cabre

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an…

— Anthony Burgess

“You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen... All…

— Leo Tolstoy

“They were tales of commonplace courage and optimism, for I knew from my own experience that everyday virtues endure best, and that…

— Nancy Atherton

There's a lot of kids' shows that are really popular ratings-wise, but they don't sell a lot of stuff. A character on…

— Tom Kenny

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded…

— Albert Einstein

I ended up working on "Chicago Hope" and other things, but always with the idea that, eventually, I would want to take…

— Remi Aubuchon

“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more…

— Walter Murch

The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does…

— Maimonides

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons…

— Shirley Hazzard

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that…

— Charlie Munger

As far as men of the past, I guess I'm comfortable looking at those roles and thinking that I want to be…

— Jack Lowden

Being real sometimes means being able to admit that you're wrong. It shows strength in character, not weakness.

— Anonymous

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

— Leigh Bardugo

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

— Fahadh Faasil

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

— John McDonnell

For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

— Cathy O'Neil

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

— Aaron Hill

Detailing and backstories are so important; only they draw you into the life of a character.

— Richa Pallod

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

— Henry Clay

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

— Ram Charan

As an actor, it's your job to switch on and off from the character.

— Prateik Babbar

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

— Laurie Metcalf

I think I embody the values of morals that my parents and life experiences have given me.

— Jason Kelce

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

— Julian Jarrold