Character Quotes · Page 337

Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

— Craig Groeschel

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

— Alexander Pope

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

— Winston Churchill

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not.

— Tamora Pierce

“To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.”

— John Leonard

When I'm not working, I don't get my hair cut. I don't know what the next character looks like.

— James Spader

The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

— Madame de Stael

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

— Jonathan Swift

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film…

— Daniel Dae Kim

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of…

— Ekta Kapoor

Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit…

— Laurel Nakadate

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our…

— Edward Dahlberg

Guest star appearances are great because you still develop a full character, but you just drop in for a little nugget of…

— Lily Gladstone

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all…

— Juan Cole

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I…

— Kat Graham

Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with…

— Alex Bledsoe

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very…

— Guy Pearce

I'm always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels…

— Ronald D. Moore

To be honest, for me, if I really believe in a story and in a character, and I want to tell something,…

— Shira Haas

“Character isn’t something that magically appears simply by virtue of having a birthday and a describable physical identity; it is something that…

— Billy Marshall-Stoneking

is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending,…

— George Tillman, Jr

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from…

— Socrates

“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as…

— John Stuart Mill

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

— Epictetus

The whole Aleister Black character is a creation of my influences, Triple H and NXT, and everyone combined.

— Aleister Black

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

— Eugene Simon

“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.”

— Paul Bamikole

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up…

— Sienna Miller

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

— Tracey Ullman

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”

— Isaac Asimov

“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

— Chris Hemsworth

“For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. To”

— Tony Hsieh

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

— Vanessa Paradis

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

— Bray Wyatt

In 'Karol Bagh,' I was playing a supporting role, the character had grey shades.

— Sargun Mehta

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

— Andre Gide

Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

— Mort Walker