Character Quotes · Page 431

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

— Georges Danton

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

— Fritz Kreisler

I want to play challenging characters. You should never be satisfied.

— Bryan Greenberg

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

— William James

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

— Jeff Kinney

When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into…

— Marion Cotillard

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

— Susan Howe

Success comes from the way you act. The way you act comes from the way you think and feel. Therefore, to become…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates…

— Annie Besant

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on…

— Hugh Laurie

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident…

— Agnes Repplier

“We praise the virtues of beauty and truth, when in fact we esteem them only to the extent they are convenient and…

— D.E. Sievers

I don't think I'd call [mood] a major force, but it is important as far as hitting the right notes or nuances…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations…

— Ian McEwan

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of…

— Anton Chekhov

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it…

— Daniel Craig

The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it.…

— Noam Chomsky

So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because…

— Molly Antopol

As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or…

— David Boreanaz

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues,…

— Alexander Pope

Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create…

— Giancarlo Esposito

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has…

— Ellen Key

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test…

— Cressida Cowell

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

— Jonathan Shapiro

In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

— Fiona Gubelmann

“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”

— Jeffrey Archer

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

— Confucius

Action should always be about character and story, not a gimmick.

— Sam Hargrave

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

— Albert Schweitzer

Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.

— James Frain

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

— Charlie Cox

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of…

— Jane Goldman

“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.”

— Bryant McGill

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

— Monica Crowley

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

— Ayn Rand

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

— Bernard Crick

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

— Joseph Chenier