Character Quotes · Page 413

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

— Arsene Wenger

Your successes and failures does not best describe you, your character and attitude does.

— Anonymous

“Your thoughts build your attitude, character, and life to represent you in society.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

— Kevin McKidd

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

— Kate Burton

“Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.”

— Tobin Wilson

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

— John Milton

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

— James Richardson

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a…

— Karl Kraus

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the…

— Rana Daggubati

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of…

— Roderick Murchison

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what…

— Stephen Graham

“We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person…

— Morgan Saylor

Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then…

— Gary Shteyngart

“...if I were to ever have enough material or the philosophical mind to write a book about what a good life ought…

— Mohammed Naseehu Ali

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By…

— Francis Schaeffer

The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more…

— Iwan Rheon

It seems evident that the more profound, helpful, and meaningful way to protect people is to dismantle the morality code, and grant…

— Terre Thaemlitz

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation…

— Jane Addams

“Daniel was very like a child in all the parts of his character. He was strongly affected by whatever was present, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I'm only 13, so I can't say "life experiences." So, basically, I had to... act! I had to make up character that…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

— Katharine Hepburn

I felt the script of 'Shivajinagara' was perfect as my character is that of a good guy with shades of grey.

— Adithya Menon

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

— Henri Bergson

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

— Theodore Dreiser

It's exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There's obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.

— Krysten Ritter

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

— Zara Phillips

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

— Geoff Rickly

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

I get attracted to projects because of the script or the idea and the basic character.

— Sharmila Tagore

Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.

— Jeff Fortenberry

“Are you going to judge a person's character by the mistakes they made on a few bad dates or by their achievements?”

— Steven Magee

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

— Sebastian Stan

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

— Fabricio Werdum

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

— Jeremy Piven