Character Quotes · Page 333

You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.

— Ralph Fiennes

Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

— Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

— Patrick deWitt

“Wealth does not impress me, character does. If you have no character, you're broke.”

— Christopher Josephs

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

— Ayn Rand

I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.

— Sophie Okonedo

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.

— Wilfrid Sheed

“Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love…

— Clifton Fadiman

'The Villain' doesn't really have any heroes, as such, but as someone I looked up to more than anyone else and was…

— Marty Scurll

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in…

— Nick Cannon

What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and…

— Hansika Motwani

My greatest fears is failure. Never underestimate your abilities on doubt or others, let your fears build your character and prevail to…

— Anonymous

I refuse to work evenings or weekends. If a script sees my character meeting for dinner, I put a line through the…

— Armando Iannucci

I'm always trying to change things - change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my…

— Chris Jericho

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's…

— Allen W. Wood

Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or…

— Rod Steiger

“But sympathy in novels need not be simply a matter of the reader’s direct identification with a fictional character. It can also…

— Jonathan Franzen

It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the…

— Ty Burrell

Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper,…

— Sivananda

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television…

— Jenna Elfman

Tom’s aunt Georgie spoke to me first, and Tom found me through her. At the time, I didn’t actually think Tom was…

— Melina Marchetta

I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted…

— Alexandra Adornetto

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just…

— Neal McDonough

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

— Christopher Lambert

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

— Terry McMillan

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally…

— Oswald Chambers

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

— Larry the Cable Guy

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

— Confucius

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

— Luc de Clapiers

Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

— Jack Whitehall

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

— James Frain

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

— Lily Tomlin

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”

— Alphonse Karr

I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.

— Wally Lamb

People will hate you, rate you,shake you,but how strong you stand makes you a person of character.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Lust of ease and comfort absolutely destroys mental toughness and begins to slowly erode ones character.”

— William James Moore