Character Quotes · Page 360

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

— Jon Glaser

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a…

— Jon Tenney

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

— Joan Greenwood

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

— Nirmala Srivastava

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

— Helen Mirren

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life…

— Bernard Crick

If you're playing someone who's impeded by fear, or shyness, or has whatever dysfunction your character might have, you have to achieve…

— Colin Firth

Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full…

— Thomas Gainsborough

“Strength is the first virtue,” Alera said. “That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without…

— Jim Butcher

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone…

— Christopher Meloni

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a…

— Henry Cavill

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters…

— Randy Pausch

I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its…

— Angela Bassett

Remember, character is not of much value. What is valuable is consciousness - not conscience but consciousness. Conscience is created by the…

— Rajneesh

“I'm your responsiblity now. You created me. You made me this way. This is your fucking mess. If you suddenly care about…

— Kitty Thomas

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept…

— Lev Shestov

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be…

— Vince Lombardi

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of…

— Dean Koontz

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

— Michel de Montaigne

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

— Paul Eldridge

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

— Amitava Kumar

“We are the pigs who put the pigs in power. If we wanna change that, we gotta build our character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

— Theodore Parker

I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.

— Jasmin Bhasin

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

— James N. Frey

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot…

— Anonymous

Beauty is not just having a beautiful face, it is having a good mind, a good heart and good will.

— Innah Delos Angeles

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

— Sylvester Stallone

“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”  -Natalie Clifford Barney”

— Genna Rulon