Character Quotes · Page 418

Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

— Judy Greer

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the…

— John Terry

I'd like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.

— Choi Woo-shik

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

— Denzel Washington

It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.

— Ruba Nadda

History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

— Ludwig Borne

“It was hard to judge a man's full character by his bachelor party etiquette.”

— Lola Dodge

“Typically in a world that has shunned goodness and morals, the villain is the hero.”

— J.C. Wickhart

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it.…

— Rose McGowan

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

— Harry Enfield

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is…

— June Jordan

What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's…

— Jake Epstein

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of…

— Mary Collyer

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of…

— R. H. Tawney

If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay…

— Sally Field

We owe it to the audience to put more characters onscreen that reflect them and that speak to issues of race and…

— Nina Jacobson

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that…

— Maya Angelou

TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a…

— Willie Garson

It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may…

— Robert Owen

When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of…

— Allen C. Guelzo

“He made a point of complimenting Lysistrara's brilliant handling of the rabies situation and thanking her for her generosity in the last…

— Suzanne Collins

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by…

— Steven Chu

...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence…

— Cesar Chavez

The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone…

— Alexa Chung

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

— Jaggi Vasudev

My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

— Aselin Debison

Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

— Benjamin Carson

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

— Rene Dubos

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect…

— George D Boardman

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

— R. C. Sproul

We're at the level of infants in moral responsibility, but with the technological capability of adults

— Lord Rees

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

— John C. Maxwell

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

— Mike Tyson

“She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.”

— Sara Sheridan

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

— Mary Parker Follett

Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

— Alec Sulkin

I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.

— Steven Shainberg

For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'.

— Elle Macpherson