Character Quotes · Page 379

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

— Kurt Busiek

Humans are the only ones who are the custodians of other people's morals.

— Naseeruddin Shah

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

— ContraPoints

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

— Gina Miller

I'd rather be despised for my character than be liked for my lack of it.

— Anonymous

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and…

— Sebastian Stan

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

— Karl Brandt

For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would…

— James Anthony Froude

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way…

— Robert Wyatt

I think our jobs as parents is to raise our children with empathy - to figure out who this little character is,…

— Margaret Trudeau

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into…

— John C. McGinley

Even when I took up 'Drishyam,' I was not the lead character. I liked the role as the story was about my…

— Ishita Dutta

I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did…

— David Giuntoli

A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than…

— Spencer W. Kimball

A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject…

— Eudora Welty

It's been such a struggle to learn all that I have; I wouldn't want to give any of that knowledge up. That's…

— Drew Barrymore

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the…

— Erik Larson

Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and…

— John Wesley

“Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and…

— Horace Mann

I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a…

— Amos Oz

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”

— Salman Rushdie

That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.

— Amanda Tapping

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

— Jeanette Winterson

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the…

— Christina Ricci

“Religion and morality do not go hand in hand. In fact, they are at the opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum.”

— Al Stefanelli

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

— Leeza Gibbons

“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

— LeCrae

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

— Dennis Farina

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

— Gary Oldman

Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own.

— Anonymous

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

— Lord Acton

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are…

— Henry James