Character Quotes · Page 386

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

— Charles Caleb Colton

It don't matter how HIGHLY qualified you are. What matterz iz, how WELL qualified you are!

— Anonymous

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

— Tinie Tempah

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

— William Saroyan

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

— Gilbert Hernandez

“Job’s sickness and afflictions didn’t build his character; they revealed the character he already had.”

— Praying Medic

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the…

— Giancarlo Esposito

“A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.”

— Navonne Johns

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play…

— Jude Law

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I…

— William Gibson

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.…

— Charles R. Swindoll

'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with…

— Brendan Fletcher

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her…

— Melanie Martinez

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit…

— Eric Roberts

I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write…

— MF Doom

Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that…

— Haley Joel Osment

When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, and they described the character…

— Chris Wood

“It is only when you are under pressure- when you are forced to choose one way or another, to either live consistently…

— Brian Tracy

The only thing I know that makes me feel comfortable is to know as much as I can. Not like what the…

— Adam Driver

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their…

— Plutarch

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which…

— Kartik Aaryan

One of the reasons Batman works as a character is that it's not beyond possibility that he could exist - you could…

— Brian Azzarello

Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even…

— Patrick Vieira

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's…

— Colm Meaney

I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.

— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

— Anonymous

Actually, Jang Ki Yong and I have completely opposite personalities.

— Lee Hye-ri

The greatest virtue that one should try to cultivate is the habit of self-reliance.

— Senora Roy

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

— Louis-Philippe I of France

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a…

— Susan Olsen

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

— Joseph Addison

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

— Clive Barker

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass.”

— Alec Cizak

Nothing can be better than playing a Maharashtrian character in a Rohit Shetty film.

— Sonu Sood

You want to play as much as possible, but I am not the type of character to go bursting walls down.

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

If you are the sort of character who likes to feel you are in a battle, then make sure you do that.

— Stuart Broad

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

— Oscar Wilde

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

— Oliver Reed

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

— Nicolas Chamfort