Character Quotes · Page 374

“To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.”

— Lee Ellis

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

— Nick Offerman

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

— Drew Scott

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

— Mark Williams

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.”

— Socrates

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

— Michael Josephson

“True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.”

— Abigail Landsbrook

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask…

— Rene Auberjonois

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They…

— Viggo Mortensen

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they…

— James Madison

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,…

— William Hazlitt

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

— Thomas Paine

I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play…

— Kat Graham

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues;…

— Walter Raleigh

A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all…

— Adrian Lester

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…

— Robert M. Pirsig

One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Shooting for a TV show is not very different from shooting for a movie. We work for long hours in both the…

— Nikitin Dheer

“Two very bad things are ill-will and unbelief, both of which are contrary to righteousness; for ill-will is opposed to charity, and…

— Pope Alexander I of Alexandria

I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many…

— T.C. Boyle

You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always…

— Ed Helms

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary…

— Sophie Barthes

I chose not to go home and struggle with the New York scene. My size sort of locked me out. I was…

— Julie Warner

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long…

— Jane Campion

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

— Zig Ziglar

“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

Playing a Black trans character on a TV show is a story that needs to be told.

— Brian Michael Smith

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

— Missy Peregrym

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

— Irwin Shaw

I come from a background in TV, where there's a real commitment to character.

— Cord Jefferson

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

— Harper Lee

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

— David O. McKay

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see…

— Miranda Otto

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

— Nelson Mandela

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still…

— Francis Atterbury

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

— David Cross

Everything on 'Broad City' that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.

— Abbi Jacobson

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

— Philip Kitcher