Character Quotes · Page 445

I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in.

— Emily Bett Rickards

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

— Jessica Hahn

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

— Michael Moore

I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.

— Zack Snyder

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

— Charlie Munger

Show respect to people who don't deserve it. Not as a reflection of their character, but of yours.

— Dave Willis

Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes.

— Michael Josephson

The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the…

— Hilaire Belloc

I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their…

— Irvine Welsh

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even…

— William Hazlitt

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture,…

— Richard Branson

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better.…

— Vinessa Shaw

Fight scenes are very physical for me. Sometimes I require my own body to move through them before I can tell where…

— Lilith Saintcrow

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have…

— Anonymous

Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren…

— Alec Baldwin

Look, in any system, you want highly ethical people who really understand issues to form policies and make tough decisions. You need…

— Jamie Dimon

When we first sat down and talked about how much of the show we were going to do based on the movie,…

— Jeph Loeb

Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you…

— Miranda July

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is…

— William Osler

I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I…

— Justin Long

The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.

— Shruti Haasan

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

— Joel Edgerton

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

— Harry Hamlin

I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.

— Marjorie Fleming

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

— David Harbour

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

— Donald Creighton

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

— Michele Bachmann

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

— Anatole Broyard

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

— Zadie Smith

-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

— Charles Darwin

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

— Goldwin Smith

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

— George H. W. Bush

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what…

— William Ellery Channing

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

— Steven Pressfield

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather…

— Thomas a Kempis