Character Quotes · Page 443

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

— John Wooden

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

— Marshall McLuhan

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

— Malcolm McDowell

“We have a moral consciousness meaning we can discern right from wrong, which makes us accountable; like Christ.”

— Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

For me, it's not about the size of the role. It's about the film-maker, script and character.

— Molly Gordon

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

— Ann Brashares

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

— Harvey Mackay

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped…

— Helen Keller

The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have…

— Don Hertzfeldt

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into…

— Jillian Medoff

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me…

— Johnny Depp

The stuff we're seeing in 'Deadpool' and 'Harley Quinn' now, Plastic Man was doing in the 1940s. It's a character that was…

— Gail Simone

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I…

— Vera Farmiga

One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments… It is always only danger…

— Stefan Zweig

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the…

— Albert Schweitzer

“You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.”

— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

Americans like warm characters. It's why, no matter what he did in the early days, they kind of resonated to Bill Clinton…

— Anna Quindlen

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the…

— Mindy Kaling

God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth…

— Rick Warren

“What you think you are inside doesn’t matter, Morgan.” She hastened over to sit beside him. “In the end, it’s what a…

— Sabrina Jeffries

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd…

— Ed Helms

Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between…

— Robert Stuart MacArthur

What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character…

— Michael Lewis

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.”

— William Shakespeare

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

— Bruce Campbell

“Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.”

— Joe Abercrombie

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

— John Quincy Adams

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

— Adam Smith

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

— Adam Driver

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.

— Will Arnett

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

— Zoe Kazan

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate…

— Richard Livingstone

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

— George Santayana

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

I liked "Superman/Batman: The Search for Kryptonite" because I really enjoyed the interaction between those two characters.

— Henry Cavill

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

— Robert Hughes

I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

— Vin Diesel

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

— Dean Ambrose

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities…

— Samuel Beckett