Character Quotes · Page 396

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of…

— Bruce Grobbelaar

A character in a TV series tends to grow and take shape as you go along.

— Lorne Greene

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

— Margaret Atwood

“Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.”

— Nick Vujicic

My favourite actor is Denzel Washington, he's a smooth character so he could play me too!

— Micah Richards

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

— John Milton

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend…

— Albert Einstein

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of…

— Curtis Jackson

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I can play the character better because of the roundness of my experience - because of the things I've been through. All…

— Charles Bronson

I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of…

— Zach Braff

Do I seem to play characters that in the end don't get the girl? Maybe. But you don't always get the girl…

— Scott Foley

I think subconsciously because of my upbringing, I was very aware of values and morals and that's why I experienced the occasional…

— Anne Marie Miller

There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human…

— Milan Kundera

It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever…

— Brittany Murphy

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more…

— Joe Abercrombie

I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are…

— Judy Greer

Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life…

— Elizabeth Mitchell

“Some people are like gravity; they draw you into a room with a hop in your step and a smile on your…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth.…

— Nathan Englander

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

— Robert Bolt

I'd like to get into the superhero genre. I'd love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.

— Dennis Haysbert

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character…

— Alfred Armand Montapert

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

— Apolo Ohno

“Is it objectively wrong to torture innocent babies, just for fun? Is morality relative?”

— Vincent Bozzino

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

— Nicole Holofcener

I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.

— Lisa Wilson

It isn't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

— William Sidney Porter

“Even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself: but from some character in whose soul I now live.”

— John Keats

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

— Joe Biden

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

— John Wooden

Weakness of character in a person is reflected as weakness of attitude & lack of confidence.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or…

— James Anthony Froude

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

— Peter Temple

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

— Nick Denton