Character Quotes · Page 349

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

— Haruki Murakami

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

— Lyman Abbott

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

— Anonymous

Have courage to follow your inner instinct and intuition. It is your inner belief which makes you a person of character.

— Anil Sinha

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.

— Tom Hiddleston

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

— Ashton Kutcher

I don't tend to spend the whole day in the personality of the person I'm playing.

— Olivia Williams

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

— Andrew Lincoln

“The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room…

— Sebastian Horsley

There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and…

— IronE Singleton

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of…

— Thomas Chalmers

Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The…

— Anonymous

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an…

— Kristen Stewart

The modern state appeals to morality, to religion, and to natural law as the ideological foundation of its existence. At the same…

— J. M. Coetzee

How can I turn my Life around?? By acting on Fear.. stop fearing the unexplained, stop fearing yourself just Do something about…

— Samara Visser

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Zen is not a morality. It never talks about right and wrong. It never talks about the saint and the sinner. It…

— OSHO

When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and…

— Donald Sutherland

The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do…

— Sylvester Stallone

We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is…

— Swami Vivekananda

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they…

— Joan Cusack

“Women are, therefore, to be considered either as moral beings, or so weak that they must be entirely subjected to the superior…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a…

— Natasha Rothwell

A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right…

— Michael Josephson

Very rarely does a character or role become larger than the actor.

— Arshad Warsi

The thrill of doing television versus features is, in television, you get to focus more on the characters.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.

— Robert Lepage

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

— Keri Russell

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

— Anonymous

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

— Muhammad Yunus

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

— Lizzy Caplan

Fuck Your Morals. Drink away your sorrows. Live your life and be happy. Don't think about tomorrow. It's all about you.

— Lynn

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

— Maria Edgeworth

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

— Aristotle

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

— Antonio Banderas

We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.

— Bryan Konietzko

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero