Character Quotes · Page 450

I've played more villains than anything else. And I love playing villains, because I can just be evil and do whatever I…

— Jennifer Lopez

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

— William Torrey Harris

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

— Edgar Ramirez

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

— Denzel Washington

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

— Dean Norris

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything…

— James Boswell

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

— Michael Josephson

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

— Paul Bloom

Cogsworth, the character I did on 'Beauty and the Beast,' could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon.…

— David Ogden Stiers

Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe…

— Anonymous

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live…

— Justin Cole

Just working on a character and his mannerisms, but not looking the part, is not my thing. It is your duty as…

— Gautam Rode

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when…

— Jenji Kohan

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in…

— Christina Aguilera

I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in…

— Patti Davis

It's really interesting to play someone you wouldn't want to ever spend more than a couple of drinks with - but who…

— Nathan Phillips

People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing.…

— Freddie Highmore

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm…

— Nathalie Emmanuel

Really, for me, it's important to know who's pitching and who's catching - just what that scene is supposed to accomplish in…

— Susan Sarandon

I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that…

— Scott Adsit

I think it's hard to differentiate between your wrestling character and your real character - you kind of end up being both.…

— Bret Hart

The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young - I think I'm…

— Brent Spiner

Amy Sedaris [in the Ghost Team] plays a Miss Cleo-esque character - Miss Cleo just died, so that's kind of timely -…

— David Krumholtz

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

— Robert Sean Leonard

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

— O. J. Simpson

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

— Confucius

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

— Jean Racine

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of…

— Bhartrhari

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

— Maxine Greene

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

— Marjorie M. Liu

Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.

— Haley Bennett

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

— Lorraine Toussaint

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

— Richard G. Scott

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to…

— Derek Fisher

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.”

— Colin Cotterill

I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

— Kat Graham