Character Quotes · Page 408

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

— Anonymous

If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s…

— Frank Turek

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.

— Alan Ritchson

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

— Walter Darby Bannard

“Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

— John Wooden

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

— Alain de Botton

Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel…

— Michael K. Williams

It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was…

— David Henry

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder…

— Swami Vivekananda

I was very tired when I left West Ham, but that's my character really. I gave everything. It can be bad, that,…

— Gianfranco Zola

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of…

— P. G. Wodehouse

If I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in…

— Vin Diesel

The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like…

— Dinesh D'Souza

It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in…

— Angelina Jolie

All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever…

— Will Arnett

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much…

— Brady Corbet

“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he…

— Ayn Rand

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with…

— Gustave Flaubert

I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes…

— Rob Zombie

“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is…

— Albert Camus

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

— Mike Tyson

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

— Aristotle

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

— Sara Zarr

I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe…

— Johnny Depp

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

— Joe Madureira

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

— Christopher Golden

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

— Phyllida Lloyd

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

— Philip Sidney

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

— Sonia Braga

Blurryface is this character that I came up with that represents a certain level of insecurity.

— Tyler Joseph

Don't love my beauty. Don't want my body. That is not me. My real beauty is something you cannot see.

— Ces Peta

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

— Marie Rutkoski

“Good character is the best insurance that pays good dividends than any insurance covers in the world. Preserve it!”

— Olawale Daniel

As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit

— Yamaoka Tesshu