Character Quotes · Page 452

But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

— Warren Spector

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

— John Irving

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

— David Starr Jordan

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

— Shiv Nadar

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just…

— Jeff Foxworthy

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really…

— Sarah Hyland

“Your words and actions must match to build your character. Any gap in those will put a dent in your credibility. Be…

— Mayur Ramgir

I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an…

— John C. Reilly

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made…

— Walter Bagehot

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way…

— Emma Donoghue

Slaying dragons, melting witches, and banishing demons is all fun and games until someone loses a sidekick—then it’s personal. The bad guy…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision…

— Thomas Hardy

Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in…

— Michael Ian Black

What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to…

— Flora Thompson

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost.…

— Robert Kennedy

“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided,…

— Haruki Murakami

There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material…

— Asger Jorn

I just really like the characte [Jasper Hale], and I love the story [Twiglight], I think it's a very strong character and…

— Jackson Rathbone

Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero - maybe ever - because he goes through something that basically everyone has to…

— Tom Holland

To touch on people's lives [ in a way they ] haven't been touched on before, it´s fascianting. You know, it's one…

— Mary Ellen Mark

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

— Stockard Channing

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

— Bill Watterson

I was very much a character actress. But I've never stopped doing theater.

— Mariette Hartley

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Let integrity fashion your character in all walks of life. As it will shape the person you will become”

— Simone Da Costa

“...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

— Oscar Wilde

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your…

— Natalie Dormer

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

— James Ellis

“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all. - Must I Paint You a Picture ”

— Billy Bragg

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know…

— Anonymous

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

— Dervla Kirwan

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

— Margaret Atwood

“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”

— Ambrose Bierce

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don't.

— Akshay Kumar

“Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor