Character Quotes · Page 395

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

— Winston Churchill

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

— Ezra Furman

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

— Patrick Henry

In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

— Dan Fogler

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

— Tim McIlrath

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

— Catherine Mary Stewart

I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.

— Felicity Jones

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear…

— Dorothea Dix

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;…

— Saint Augustine

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody…

— Wesley Morris

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator…

— Jenna Elfman

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve,…

— Franz Beckenbauer

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it…

— Gary Oldman

Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a…

— Graham Greene

I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or…

— Rory Stewart

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals…

— Benjamin Rush

“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger…

— Patricia Lockwood

Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of…

— Thomas Jefferson

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“...I do not think that it is right for a man to appeal to the jury or to get himself acquitted by…

— Socrates

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions…

— Andrew Jackson

I don't even know why, but my entire career is contemporary films. Entire career! There's no period movies - there's one -…

— Michael Douglas

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

— Bill Skarsgard

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

— Rio Ferdinand

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

— Pia Zadora

With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.

— Shawnee Smith

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

— William Shakespeare

“I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.”

— Maralee McKee

I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.

— Dave Rowntree

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work…

— Fran Kranz

Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

— Victor Hugo

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

— Hannah More

“Without virtue and training, Aristotle observed, “it is hard to bear the results of good fortune suitably.”

— Ryan Holiday

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

— Cameron Crowe

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

— Raheel Farooq

If somebody is excited to cast me in a character that is surprising even for me to play, that is something I'll…

— Milind Soman