Character Quotes · Page 406

Condemnation campaigns can and do work, even in conditions where one thinks there are no morals left.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

— Anushka Shetty

We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.

— Letitia James

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other…

— John Locke

I'm just looking for characters that continue to make me stretch and grow and learn more about the human condition.

— Forest Whitaker

I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.

— Vittorio Grigolo

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

— Thomas John Barnardo

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and…

— Natalie Dormer

I think the only productive way to approach characters, and frankly people in life, is through empathy. The minute we call someone…

— Bryce Pinkham

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters…

— Jonah Hill

Acting. Whenever I am playing a character, I use my real life experiences, which puts me on the line of reliving some…

— Allison Holker

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other…

— Napoleon Hill

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel…

— Parvathy

It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done…

— Tom Stoppard

The strange thing about being an actor is it's almost a little dangerous to invest in an idea. I think once you…

— Keiko Agena

The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena…

— Elisabeth Shue

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or…

— Bentley Little

Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some…

— Damon Lindelof

I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really…

— Emma Watson

I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand…

— Alan Bradley

I think for me, the best comedy comes from when something feels real and genuine, so even though Miranda is this wacky…

— Colleen Ballinger

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never…

— Craig Bierko

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

— Anonymous

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

— Epictetus

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

— Bertrand Russell

“Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality”

— Amy Waldman

I'm a really evil person on TV! It's way more fun to be the bad guy.

— Eve Torres

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

— Carmen Cusack

Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships

— Tony Dungy

I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me.…

— Stephen Colbert

Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.

— Shailene Woodley

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

— John Kricfalusi

My character from 'Boys Over Flowers' enjoyed being in love; he was romantic and smooth.

— Kim Bum

Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue

— Charles Saatchi

Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

— Jack Gleeson

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

— David Brooks

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

— Charles Frazier