Character Quotes · Page 444

Pay attention when someone gets mad, that's when their true colors show.

— Anonymous

“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I will never do a usual film with song and dance; the character has to be important.

— Parineeti Chopra

There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

The number one job of an actor is to be a character and never let the acting show.

— Sondra Locke

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

— Anonymous

I love 'Modern Family.' I like Gloria. Sofia Vergara, her character. She's fun. She's hilarious.

— Hallie Jackson

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land…

— Tom Selleck

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my…

— Jonathan Groff

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too…

— Thomas Sowell

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the…

— Thomas Lennon

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that…

— Alexander Chee

I'm the youngest sibling of a very outspoken, very popular character. As much as I love to share the stage with him…

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is a great leader, possesses the highest possible character, and also happens to be a Browns…

— John Dorsey

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?"…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips…

— Andy Serkis

What links Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Marine Le Pen is one simple character trait: hypocrisy. These politicians…

— Anne Applebaum

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to…

— Mike Leigh

“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it…

— Charles Kingsley

The devil's in the details. The way I view my job is to bring the reader into a world they otherwise could…

— Don Winslow

“What would it mean for us to come to terms with the knowledge that civilization, our whole mode of development and culture,…

— John Sanbonmatsu

They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't…

— William Mapother

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

— Peter Milligan

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

— Aristotle

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values;…

— Ayn Rand

I'm interested in women who have got character and experience and an opinion about things.

— Giles Deacon

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

— Dennis Prager

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

— Parvathy

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.

— Alison Lohman

Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!

— Pete Maravich

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

— Mignon McLaughlin

What attracts me specifically to roles is the heart of the character.

— Tishuan Scott

It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

— Justin Gatlin

“Everything in your story world has one of three basic meanings to each character: good, bad, or neutral.”

— Randy Ingermanson

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

— Daniel Webster

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

— Diogenes

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?

— Graham Patrick Martin

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

— Pope Pius XII