Character Quotes · Page 458

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

— Denis Diderot

Try finding a better villain than me. I am the best of the worst!

— Rajesh Khattar

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

— Dario Argento

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

— Ming-Na Wen

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

— Lupe Fiasco

No fact of human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance.

— Anonymous

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

— Jazz Jennings

I'm made of dead stars, I eat a lot of fruits, and I hate peak period travel, as opposed to my character…

— Ronny Chieng

“It is a myth that the reason why men do good or evil things is that they are essentially good or essentially…

— Shaun Myandee

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that…

— Zig Ziglar

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like…

— Andrew Scott

Movies are a powerful medium. People think you are your character. I've had plenty of people who think I'm Drago. They don't…

— Dolph Lundgren

To be honest I would like to do more movies, I've been a victim of my own success in that sense, as…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate…

— Henry David Thoreau

“99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some…

— Ashly Lorenzana

I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the…

— Alan Tudyk

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this…

— Zach Anner

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons…

— David Cay Johnston

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you…

— Rose McGowan

“In addition to its elements of adolescent titillation, the world of JA2 contains racism, sexism, xenophobia, government-sponsored torture, child labor, and extreme…

— Anonymous

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

— John Milton

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

— Nicholas Sparks

There's 54 years of X-Men comics by now, so there are a lot of characters to explore.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

Steadfastness and strength come not from success but the doubts and struggles you overcame to succeed. Tom Krause

— Tom Krause

Ideally, you end up going to auditions not because you want a job but because you want to try out a character.

— Liv Hewson

You can tell a lot about a person from the Facebook statuses he or she likes.

— Jatin Tanwer

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

— Sebastian Stan

“Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“What's the moral of the story? People Above will hurt you. People Above will break you, and devour your heart raw.”

— Leah Bobet

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Just because the world spins, doesn't mean you have to become dizzy.

— Anonymous

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

— Ayn Rand

I don't know about others, but I am sensitive, and I easily get attached to my characters.

— Sanya Malhotra

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

— Jean Racine

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the worldÂ’s torrent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

— William Hazlitt