Character Quotes · Page 377

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

— Maurice Barres

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

— Rajkummar Rao

I've always wanted to play the villain. You get to be morally corrupt. You don't get to do that in real life.

— Kendrick Sampson

Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.

— William Shakespeare

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

— Norman Macleod

Did I fall in love with you or the character you were playing ??

— Ritu Ghatourey

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.

— Jack Handey

There are franchise players to build around that have championship-level talent, skill, basketball IQ, and character - it's hard to find those…

— Jeff Van Gundy

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters…

— Kari Matchett

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character.…

— Mila Kunis

Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness…

— Julius Rosenwald

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the…

— Ron Howard

You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and…

— Ben Jonson

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years…

— Gina Schock

When you're in your early 20s, a lot of characters can be one or two dimensional. You want a role to substantiate…

— Tom Hughes

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars.…

— Tom Ford

It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character…

— Winona Ryder

You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters…

— Steven Moffat

“If you choose to do the right thing, it's a conscious decision at first. Then it becomes second nature. You don't have…

— J.L. Witterick

It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from…

— Kelsey Chow

I was 19 years when I got into acting training classes at a TV station and then I found a way to…

— Tony Leung Chiu Wai

Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to…

— Colin Farrell

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

— Stanley Schmidt

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

— Nicole Kidman

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— Don DeLillo

Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

— Aaron Gillespie

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

— Erwin McManus

My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.

— Lech Walesa

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what…

— Lucy Hale

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

— Rush Limbaugh

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

— J. C. Ryle

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

— Radhika Apte

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

— Willa Cather

Sometimes, as actors, we feel like we want to hold on and control where a character goes.

— Corey Hawkins

Iron Man is my most favorite human, character, person in the world.

— Lana Condor

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

— John Travolta

Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.

— Terry Goodkind