Character Quotes · Page 417

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

— James Earl Jones

If I weren’t getting paid or didn’t have a character like Wolverine to maintain, I would just be a tall, lean, fit…

— Hugh Jackman

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.

— Ben Mendelsohn

“IN GOD’S STRATEGY FOR SUCCESSFUL LIVING, CHARACTER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN INTELLIGENCE.”

— Anonymous

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

— Chuck Todd

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

— Bruce Boxleitner

It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

— Jonathan Maberry

In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish…

— Felix Adler

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…

— Edward Hoagland

With 'Black and White 2,' I want to put it in a setting where you're actually using the creature. I want the…

— Peter Molyneux

In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to…

— Vincent de Paul

“Regardless of the trends we see in the deterioration of morality, respect, and values, wise people will still strive to take the…

— Susan C. Young

No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may…

— Henry Fielding

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head,…

— Jason Reitman

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like…

— Greg Mottola

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.…

— Charlie Munger

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is…

— Stevie Smith

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I would love to do things that teach me new skills. Like, I don't know how to ride a horse. And not…

— Asia Kate Dillon

For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are…

— Larenz Tate

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

— Mark Twain

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

— Garrett Hardin

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

— James Jones

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

— Karol G

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

— Peter Sarsgaard

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

— Henry Cavill

The most important in movie is having a bad character; Not the Hero and the Heroine

— Anonymous

No one will question your integrity if your integrity is not questionable.

— Nathaniel Bronner Jr

“Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem.”

— Steven Ramirez

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

— Bret Stephens

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

— Ellen Hopkins

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

— Douglas William Jerrold

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual…

— Tina Fey

It is not only easier to find fault with another person than to examine one's own character, it is also tempting.

— Martin Dansky