Character Quotes · Page 416

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

— Brady Corbet

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

— Augustus Hare

Avram is a character. Sitting in team meetings, you realise what a positive person and manager he is.

— Wayne Bridge

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

— Mae West

“Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.”

— K. Howard Joslin

We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as harmless but as a useless character.

— Pericles

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers

“But such a fortuitous rescue from ethical bondage is rare indeed.”

— Joe Queenan

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character…

— Zachary Levi

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.

— Steven Pinker

I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight…

— Anne Frank

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've…

— Scott Speedman

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these…

— Richelle Mead

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have…

— Edgar Mitchell

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for…

— Kathryn Bigelow

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my…

— Holt McCallany

“Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples in the moral life of human…

— Robert B. Louden

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of…

— Plutarch

“and self-responsibility can only occur where the child is surrounded with moral behavior and allowed to grow her own understanding of the…

— Kelly Bryson

Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom…

— Chuck Wendig

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews.…

— Roald Dahl

“It is realistic rather than cynical to observe that in a fallen world there are degrees of virtue in relation to what…

— Os Guinness

“Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director…

— Vin Diesel

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

— James Buchan

If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.

— Christopher Markus

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

— Rob James-Collier

I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.

— Megan Thee Stallion

“If talent is the floor and character the ceiling, then work-ethic is the altitude of personal achievement.”

— Orrin Woodward

In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.

— Vivek Agnihotri

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

— Anonymous

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

— Gertrude Atherton

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

— H. L. Mencken

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

— Madame de Stael

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

— Rumi

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

— Christopher Walken

The left and Democrats are relying on the decline the American character that left-wing policies have produced.

— Dennis Prager

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

— Juliette Lewis