Character Quotes · Page 376

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Playing weird and quirky characters, like those with weird nuances, I find very interesting.

— Bel Powley

I thought I did play one villain, Hitler, [who is] like Lecter in some ways, but he's a mythical figure, anyway.

— Anthony Hopkins

“Moral allegories about people determined to root out wickedness in others while denying it in themselves.” “Actually,”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.”

— Nicole Guillaume

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

— Elizabeth Marvel

The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?

— Juvenal

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents…

— Charles Churchill

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation…

— Boris Yeltsin

I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your…

— Essie Davis

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the…

— Ellen Muth

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of…

— Gore Vidal

“If your nationality is lost, nothing is lost – if your religion is lost, nothing is lost – if your ethnicity is…

— Abhijit Naskar

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is…

— Lena Headey

There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but…

— Naya Rivera

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like 'Once…

— Robbie Kay

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

I think that ‘New Moon’ was my favorite book as well mainly because I like the juxtaposition of all sudden people being…it’s…

— Robert Pattinson

Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as…

— Mary Lee Settle

“It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of…

— Eudora Welty

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot…

— Robert Harris

I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all…

— Glenn Close

You know, I've always wrote my best stuff when it takes me hardly any time at all. Actually I wrote…this is actually…

— Wednesday 13

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

— Saqib Saleem

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

— Mark Twain

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

— Tony Bellew

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

— Demi Moore

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

No Person Ever Ended Its Eyesight By Looking On The Bright Side...

— Pacifiersucker

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

— Muriel Spark

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

— Rupert Sanders

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

— Spike Lee

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

— Veronica Roth

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.

— Sheila Hancock

I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.

— Michael Marisi Ornstein

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

— Chris Farley

I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

— Lloyd Alexander