Character Quotes · Page 358

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

— Elbert Hubbard

“The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing”

— Dean Cavanagh

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

More than the hair and the makeup, what is important is to feel the character.

— Mrunal Thakur

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

— Adam Driver

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

— Dan Barker

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

— Edmund Burke

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery.…

— Heather Headley

Despite his success and glory, as a man of God and devoted family man, the legacy of Bobby Bowden far surpasses the…

— Byron Donalds

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that…

— Ralph Fiennes

Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they…

— B. Traven

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the…

— William Moulton Marston

I came up through Second City, so I'm used to playing 20 characters every night who are very different from each other.…

— Scott Adsit

Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know…

— Diane Setterfield

My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at…

— Margaret E. Knight

It's easy to put [serious threats] aside, and the media don't talk about them. Other things are more important. How am I…

— Noam Chomsky

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That…

— Kristen Stewart

A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when…

— Bobby Bowden

“And Mr Verloc, temparamentally identical with his associates, drew fine distinctions in his mind on the strenght of insignificant differences. He drew…

— Joseph Conrad

“Bradley Headstone, in his decent black coat and waistcoat, and decent white shirt, and decent formal black tie, and decent pantaloons of…

— Charles Dickens

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous.…

— Carl Jung

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

— Eric Hoffer

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

— Friedrich Schiller

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be passionate about who you are and what you stand for. Set an example for others to follow.

— Anonymous

If you can't be honest or don't have integrity, then you won't have a high standards without good discipline.

— Wazim Shaw

“When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.”

— Richard Marcel I

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

— Elmore Leonard

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

Someday, I hope I live in a world where people look at the heart of a person instead of the color of…

— Anonymous