Character Quotes · Page 347

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

— Howie Long

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

— Ronald Reagan

If you REALLY want to know how a guy will treat you, look at how he treats his mom, sister, grandma, boss,…

— Cynthia Silva

Whatever character I play, I want to inspire. I don't want to just be the girlfriend or be the wife.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

— Dalai Lama

“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.”

— Christopher Hitchens

What is Milan's character? Let's not be closed in by our provincialism.

— Franca Sozzani

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

— Jane Levy

You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a…

— Michael Wincott

The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

— Mary Karr

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of…

— Patricia Lee Gauch

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not…

— Joel Coen

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't…

— Zig Ziglar

It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're…

— Joshua Mohr

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless…

— Kenneth Clark

I am also lucky that I can forget about any character I do within 24 hours. I can laugh heartily within minutes…

— Shweta Menon

At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being,…

— Emile Durkheim

Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have…

— Janna Levin

I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it…

— Sylvia Plath

I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little…

— Dean Israelite

I've never had a mentor personally of any kind. It feels like, generally, in the writing world or the art world, it's…

— Steve Toltz

Its always great when a director is just supportive of what youre doing. Theyre not so much critiquing you but giving you…

— Emma Roberts

When you're really young, you tend to fall in love with characters. If you start seeing the same type of character everywhere…

— Kelly Marie Tran

“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a…

— Primo Levi

Every character, if fleshed out properly, is being taken seriously.

— Varun Sharma

I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to…

— Zuleikha Robinson

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road.

— Isaac Wright Jr

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never…

— Christopher Lambert

There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

— Dennis Haysbert

You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

— Andy Daly

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

— Kathleen Turner

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

— Albert Einstein

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

— Asa Butterfield

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

— Charles R. Swindoll

God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

— Tommy Tenney

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.

— Thomas Chalmers

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

— Holly Hunter

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

— Ayn Rand