Character Quotes · Page 363

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love when someone says they have morals but never follow them,

— Kiera

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.

— Antonio Banderas

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

— Michael Fassbender

I feel defensive about my character because I really love Andrea, and we share the same heart.

— Laurie Holden

“We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

“People who are seeking to get famous need to ask themselves one question. Do I have depth of character? It doesn't matter…

— Robert Black

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect…

— George Washington

You can’t be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You can’t serve until you have stepped out of your…

— Bill Courtney

I loved playing Go Go, because the character's so extreme. And she's pretty close to my real character. Especially the fact that…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a…

— Alan Menken

You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what…

— Gerald Scarfe

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big…

— Grant Bowler

I can tell you that I like to take a character where everyone may have an idea of what it's supposed to…

— Anthony Carrigan

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I…

— Jennifer Lopez

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than…

— Wendell Phillips

When I am a good guy on TV, my character tends to be almost identical to how I am as a real…

— Mojo Rawley

Sometimes what you turn out may be just a performance, but sometimes what you create will change the way people think about…

— Adrian Lester

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,…

— Jane Addams

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that…

— Michel de Montaigne

Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens…

— Jeff Schweitzer

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

— Ben Kingsley

If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.

— Graham Yost

With every character, the first thing I want to feel is empathy.

— Jonathan Groff

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am.

— Miley Cyrus

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.

— Walter J. Phillips

If a character artiste accepts too many small roles his career dies a slow death.

— Mukesh Rishi

We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life.

— Jacqueline Bisset

If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.

— Geena Davis

“... You saved me from a life filled with absurd prejudice and morality and allowed me to grow...”

— Julie Maroh

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

— Terry Goodkind

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

— Ross Lynch

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

— Don Roff

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

— Tacitus

“Ethical use of anything sets everything right, and also makes space for more.”

— Vijaya Raje Lakshmi

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long…

— Harry Graham