Character Quotes · Page 451

Scarface is just a character. He's just something to look at. He's not nothing to be.

— Scarface

Christopher Gore is a great character, portrayed with wisdom and understanding.

— Ian McElhinney

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

— James Cook

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That's neat.

— River Phoenix

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

You can't let games define who you are and your character as a player.

— Julio Jones

“Balance is more than light and dark, more than sin and virtue.”

— Julie Anne Addicott

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are…

— Moliere

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that…

— Anonymous

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot…

— Saint Augustine

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the…

— Brad Warner

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should…

— Gustave Courbet

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That…

— Ru Freeman

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is…

— Woodrow Wilson

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't…

— Lou Reed

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and…

— Christopher Nolan

See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off…

— Nathaniel Culverwell

Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those…

— Werner Heisenberg

The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands…

— Peter Greenaway

I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or…

— Elmore Leonard

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the…

— Blaise Pascal

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the…

— Franz Kafka

I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.

— Jim Lee

I'd rather play an ass-kicking destroyer or a super strong spy or agent than some meek, vulnerable character.

— Tricia Helfer

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honor.

— Bilal Zahoor

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

— Michel de Montaigne

BEAUTY can capture one's attention. But CHARACTER can capture one's heart..!

— Nishan Panwar

I have said to my agents, 'I want to work. I want to play character roles.'

— Pierce Brosnan

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham

— W Somerset Maugham

“Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.”

— Kai Nielsen

“The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.”

— Orrin Woodward

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

— Edwin Markham

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

— Jane Badler

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

— Ben Schwartz

The fundamental answer to morality is that no one is right. If everyone was good then no one would be evil.

— Jeremy Limn

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

— Maya Angelou

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'

— Brina Palencia