Character Quotes · Page 397

Just as Yama is a villain for evil forces, my character in 'Yaman' is also a villain against those who don't follow…

— Vijay Antony

“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

— Umberto Eco

“Corruption is not a moral problem, it is a distribution system and a way of amassing power.”

— Lisa Margonelli

“Good character is all about improving your personal moral values to advance to a more desirable state.”

— Joan Jessalyn Cox

My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.

— Michael K. Williams

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

— Clint Eastwood

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

— Katee Sackhoff

I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'

— Denise Di Novi

Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage…

— Katha Pollitt

30 Rock' is superbly funny - it's unashamedly odd, loud and cartoony. There are physical jokes, clever jokes, dumb jokes, character jokes…

— Lou Sanders

It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi…

— Kalki Koechlin

I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an…

— Milo Ventimiglia

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system…

— Chris Zylka

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever…

— Jill Scott

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of…

— Marguerite Moreau

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice…

— Marcus Aurelius

When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a…

— Elmore Leonard

“No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

“Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character…

— Bernard Shaw

For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character.…

— Katie Cassidy

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national…

— William Shatner

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

— Bill Courtney

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

— Dennis Prager

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

I don't have that X factor; I have to bank on my skills, be true to my character, and hope to be…

— Tiger Shroff

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

— Phyllis Bottome

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

— Jacki Weaver

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.

— Riz Ahmed

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

— David Walton

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

— C. S. Lewis

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my…

— Patrick Wilson

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

— John Malkovich

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of…

— Epictetus

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

— Joe Madureira