Character Quotes · Page 339

We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.

— David Brock

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

— Daniel Cudmore

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

— Marshall Allman

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor…

— Richard M. Nixon

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

I debuted in a movie where I had a very heavy role. People did not accept me in that character.

— Zareen Khan

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and…

— George Santayana

It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much…

— Melissa Leo

Sinbad is a great character for any actor to be able to play: impulsive, adventurous, passionate, loyal, and brave - a true…

— Elliot Knight

Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Batman is pretty much a self-trained guy. I think it would be fun to do a character like Superman or Captain Marvel…

— Paul Dini

Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and…

— Barack Obama

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have…

— Camille Pissarro

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into…

— Henrik Ibsen

“Amid an array of moral convictions, the indistinguishable character of the church undermines its claims of a superior—indeed ontologically true—moral vision. On…

— Mark Labberton

Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create…

— Nathan Greno

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love…

— Sylvia Hoeks

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality…

— Herbert Read

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so…

— Jesse Eisenberg

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered…

— Henry Fielding

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The…

— Farah Khan

“The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers…

— Shannon L. Alder

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

— Anne Frank

“Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually…

— Donald Miller

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

— Taryn Manning

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

— John D. Rockefeller

“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

— Oscar Wilde

I believe in living the character whether it's in films or television.

— Sara Khan

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

— Jubal

It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

— Liam Hemsworth

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

— Mardy Grothe

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

— Katee Sackhoff

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

— Hunter Tylo

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

— Mark Waid

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

— Laurell K. Hamilton