Character Quotes · Page 365

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

— Hermann Hesse

An honest, sincerely stated compliment helps to build character; criticism destroys it.

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

— Margaret Atwood

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

— Marva Collins

What you put into your children's heart today influences their character for tomorrow.

— Anonymous

There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.

— Harald Zwart

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out…

— Elle Fanning

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that…

— Amy Poehler

We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will…

— Barbara Kopple

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

— Alan Dershowitz

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Humans are generally much trickier to draw because we're so used to looking at and analyzing human faces. The slightest tweak makes…

— Lisa Hanawalt

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think my craziest hair was when I first went red for my 30th birthday. My idea was The Little Mermaid because…

— Elizabeth Jagger

Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave…

— Strother Martin

I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and…

— Mike Mignola

It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the…

— William Morley Punshon

The whole nature of the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that everything is connected, and everything is interconnected. You…

— Samuel Barnett

Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much…

— Nick Petrie

I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native…

— Jay Ryan

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

— Takeshi Kitano

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

— Laura Schlessinger

You don't truly know someone until you see how they react to their bag of chips getting stuck in a vending machine.

— Anonymous

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

— George A. Romero

I'll show up at your trial as a character witness...If you think that'll help.

— James T Kirk

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

— Jeanne Shaheen

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

— Matt Bomer

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

— Samuel Johnson

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have some money and your wife will know your character... try to have no money and you will know your wife's characters...

— Mercy Pheona

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make…

— Dana Carvey

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.

— Thomas Lickona

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

— Andy Wachowski

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

— Janina Gavankar

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson