Character Quotes · Page 338

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

— Alfred Hitchcock

If you want to identify someones character, examine the friends he sits with.

— Anonymous

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

When what we want to do and what we ought to do are two different things, character is built in the choice…

— Anonymous

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

“A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.”

— Håkan Nesser

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

— Tom Hooper

There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.

— Cher Lloyd

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever…

— Robin Wasserman

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story…

— Jessica Cutler

I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get…

— Katherine Heigl

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man…

— Confucius

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy…

— Christian Louboutin

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it…

— Dave Calhoun

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger,…

— Swami Vivekananda

“What would you do?" "Is this one of those morality questions? Cause I got Unsatisfactory on my last few official psych evals…

— S.E. Jakes

I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to…

— Kevin Spacey

There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the…

— Ronald Reagan

I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have…

— Margaret Thatcher

I was debating whether to do Legally Blonde, and I saw this interview with Gloria Steinem about how important Goldie Hawn's role…

— Reese Witherspoon

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters…

— Louis Sachar

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more…

— Charles Dickens

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my…

— Diablo Cody

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and…

— Dan Scanlon

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I am looking at characters that will stay with people, that they will remember. Characters that are relevant.

— Jisshu Sengupta

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

— Zoe Saldana

Unless Your Name Is Google, Stop Acting That You Know Everything...

— Pacifiersucker

“I think a character in a comedy should not know they're in a comedy.”

— Steve Carell

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.

— Herbert Spencer

“it is only in the ideal or perfect state that the virtues of the good citizen and the good man are identical.”

— Seneca

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

— Bill Courtney

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

— John Kador

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

— Sophie Hannah

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

— Caroline Lawrence

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

— Mercy Otis Warren

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

— Taraji P. Henson

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

— Jerry Hall

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

— Sylvester Stallone

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

— Khushwant Singh