Character Quotes · Page 389

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

— Anonymous

It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable.

— Paulo Coelho

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

— Sam Harris

I think it's okay to have fun and show some character and some personality.

— Sean Doolittle

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then…

— William H. Macy

I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play.

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

— Jim Butcher

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

— James Q. Wilson

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the…

— J. D. Hayworth

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us…

— Richard Dawkins

To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that…

— Louis J. Mordell

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was…

— Jenna Elfman

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It…

— Disha Patani

I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep…

— Jovan Adepo

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role…

— Willem Dafoe

Jon Raymond and I are in each other's worlds, and we have a similar political point of view and interest in people.…

— Kelly Reichardt

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any…

— Peter Coyote

“God forbid that I should boast of being poor, gentle, and meek. But I am striving to attain these virtues. Every day…

— Jean Déchanet

I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a…

— Philippe Halsman

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you…

— Dianna Agron

Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies.…

— Fredrik Bond

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because…

— Morris Gleitzman

One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around…

— Zach Braff

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

— Sophie Okonedo

Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

— David Morrissey

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

— Tracy Morgan

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

— Helen Keller

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

— Tony Curtis

“The Spice Girl morality is the morality of the three-year-old.”

— John Marsden

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

— Adam Croasdell

A person educated in mind and not in morals is a menace to society

— Juanita Kidd Stout

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

— Jared Leto

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

— Michael Berryman

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that…

— Albert Camus

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

— Isabelle Eberhardt