Character Quotes · Page 372

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.

— Michael Josephson

Persons of character have courage and conviction to withstand challenges of life.

— Anil Sinha

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

— Ginnifer Goodwin

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

— Virginia Wade

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

— Charles Frazier

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

— Brendan Fehr

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can…

— Lauren Mayberry

“When your heart overfloweth broad and full like the river, a blessing and a danger to the lowlanders: there is the origin…

— Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm

If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I…

— Victor Rasuk

I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this…

— David Walton

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the…

— Aden Young

There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look…

— Walter Kirn

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find…

— Sharon Creech

I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like…

— Calista Flockhart

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when…

— Lauren Groff

If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or…

— David Boreanaz

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because…

— Molly Antopol

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and…

— Albert Schweitzer

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has…

— Ellen Key

As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not…

— David Quammen

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

— Nick Saban

Were all born with the same size soul, everyone is born good. It's choices along the bumpy road of life that changes…

— Anonymous

When something has soul, it doesn't matter that the character is different from you.

— Shira Haas

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

— Edward Gibbon

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

— Raoul Dufy

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

— Randy Quaid

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

— Remy de Gourmont

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

— Robert Cray

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

— David Antin

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

Of course, the character of my garden is also determined by things beyond any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

— Allen Lacy

It's definitely hard to say good-bye to a character that you've played for a long time.

— Paula Malcomson

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

— Anonymous

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan