Character Quotes · Page 366

I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page.

— Morgan Freeman

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

— Miranda Otto

“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

— George W. Bush

Even with a villain, you don't want him just to be some pockmarked punchbag.

— Alex Gibney

I think about the character in any new offer that comes to me. Only if I like it do I go ahead…

— Regina Cassandra

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

— Lecrae

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

— Dylan McDermott

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl.…

— Lily Collins

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You…

— John Belushi

You know it's a great story when you identify with the main character to the point that you forget you're a spectator…

— Gaspar Noe

Raju Gadu' is a situational comedy where I play a fun and bubbly character. She's a proper Andhra girl who's modern but…

— Amyra Dastur

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in…

— Chevy Stevens

Paris could go to Patricia Field, find a pair of pants or a skirt, and then she would pair it with one…

— Kathy Hilton

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell…

— Rod Steiger

In Michelle Obama attack on Donald Trump, she never mentioned Trump's name, but she made reference to the fact that this is…

— Rush Limbaugh

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo…

— Rhea Perlman

We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with…

— Herman Melville

The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of…

— William Langland

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first…

— George Will

The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and…

— Ryan North

The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their…

— Bryan Cranston

People are mystified by it and so they kind of think, the acting community thinks they're gonna be replaced by CG characters…

— Andy Serkis

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

— G. Stanley Hall

The American system of checks and balances is only as strong as the leaders who have the character and courage to enforce…

— Neera Tanden

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

— Lee Pace

I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.

— Constance Zimmer

To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.

— Joan D. Chittister

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

— Ameen Rihani

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

— Richard Gere

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

— Morris Gleitzman

I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.

— Ricky Gervais

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

— Aristotle

Persistence, patience and perseverance are virtue of person with strong positive attitude.

— Anil Sinha

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

— Joseph Addison

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

— Milan Kundera

What you have don't make you the better person your character does

— Ms Kee

I do assume that a character or a place is inexhaustible and will always reward further attention.

— Marilynne Robinson