Character Quotes · Page 403

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

— Gaspar Noe

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

— Jessica Pare

“Everything I know about morality and the obligations of men, I owe it to football (soccer).”

— Albert Camus

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

— Nelson Mandela

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

— Darren Star

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

— Richard Gere

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

— Albert Schweitzer

“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”

— Sophocles

“Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a…

— Pope Francis

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what…

— Anonymous

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the…

— Radha Mitchell

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.

— Anonymous

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to…

— Judy Blume

I'm a character actress trapped in the body of a teenage boy. I'm never going to get the parts that Andrea Martin…

— Cole Escola

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting…

— Kevin Kwan

The character is important, of course, but I like when there's intelligence in a movie. I like when it's, how do you…

— Lea Seydoux

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and…

— Jean Baudrillard

“I am a scholar and a pupil who has been lulled to sleep by the meagre fire of a mind too humble.…

— Laura Cereta

“This observation, then, holds universally: But still one may be at some loss to account for it. It is not sufficient to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,…

— Patricia Highsmith

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear…

— Charles Darwin

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to…

— Roger Babson

I'm always amazed by people like David Simon or the people at The Simpsons or J.K. Rowling who can create dozens and…

— Drew Magary

One of the things about crowd work that's so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who's interesting or…

— John Hodgman

A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.

— Elaine S. Dalton

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

Being Tickled... Is Like Being Raped But You Are Forced To Laugh.

— Pacifiersucker

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

— Ann Demeulemeester

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

— Douglas Wilson

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the…

— Swami Vivekananda

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just…

— Steve Zahn

Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

— Michael Scott

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

— Stephen Moyer

“Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel. But, what about virtue?”

— Mary Oliver

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

— Walt Disney

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

— Lars von Trier

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

— Natalie Dormer

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

— Cal Thomas

The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

— Allen W. Wood