Character Quotes · Page 364

“holiness is not the accumulation of virtues. Holiness is being possessed by God.”

— John Riccardo

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

— Michael Shermer

I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.”

— Himanshu Chhabra

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

— Eric Balfour

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

— Emmett Kelly

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

— Victoria Justice

Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets…

— Sue Grafton

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me…

— Quvenzhane Wallis

The Million Dollar Man thought he could buy anybody or anything and that was the essence of the character. About as evil…

— Ted DiBiase Sr

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what…

— Andrew Greeley

“Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But overdo it, and no…

— Lisa Kleypas

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end…

— Stephen K. Amos

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are…

— Sharlto Copley

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses…

— Roger Rosenblatt

If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have…

— Antonio Banderas

Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration.…

— Pythagoras

When you're in a movie with Will Ferrell, well, it's time to at least sometimes throw the script away. And that character…

— Gary Cole

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular…

— William James

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you…

— Elfriede Jelinek

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes…

— John Adams

If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume…

— James D. Watson

I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by…

— Peter Orner

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

— Tommy Franks

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

— Steve Burton

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

That is something that's been a cornerstone for me for forever. I want to play multilayered, complex characters.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

— Anonymous

“Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

— Anonymous

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

— Dana Ashbrook

“If sarcasm were a virtue, I'd be the most righteous man alive.”

— Simeon Stoychev

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of…

— John Bytheway

When you admit your mistake or wrong doing, it is sign of your strength and inner beauty.

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

— Darby Stanchfield

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

— Charlize Theron

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

— Aeschylus

“driven, passionate, mercurial, irascible" [the character of Michelangelo]”

— Miles J. Unger