Character Quotes · Page 391

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.”

— Marisha Pessl

“Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

— John Wooden

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

— Emmy Rossum

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

— Jason Reynolds

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very…

— Romeo Santos

“True character is what you say and do when no one is looking.” ~John Wooden”

— Orly Wahba

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of…

— David Levithan

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly…

— Dana Carvey

I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is…

— Michael Shannon

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell…

— Stephen Lang

I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally…

— Ted Dekker

Even with the lowest budget in the world, you better get some names in there; that calms people down. Then be sure…

— Robert Downey Sr

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and…

— Jackie Collins

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your…

— Zoe Kazan

The key is to listen to your heart and let it carry you in the direction of your dreams. I've learned that…

— Michael Dell

There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I…

— Calvin Coolidge

“I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and…

— John Steinbeck

The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be…

— N. Scott Momaday

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral…

— William James

Delving deeper into character's motivations one thing I always find helpful is to imagine the person as a child, imagine them at…

— Luke Kirby

“The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court… There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've always said that my greatest crises are my greatest opportunities to prove my own character to myself.

— Jon Taffer

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good…

— Nazanin Boniadi

With classic sitcoms like MASH, the characters all drove each other crazy, and that's what you loved to see.

— David Alan Basche

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

— Marilyn Manson

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

— Richard Hell

“Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?”

— K. Howard Joslin

I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments.

— Lucas Hedges

“Love can cause problem and love can heal humanly problems based on our virtue.”

— Santosh Kalwar

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

— Michael Kinsley

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

— Kirk Douglas

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

— Edward Tufte

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

— Beau Bridges

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

— Jack Levine

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.

— Brendan Dooling

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

— Michael K. Williams