Character Quotes · Page 82

Gratitude is the moral memory of mankind.

— Georg Simmel

“My morality is almost a contortionist.”

— Eliza Crewe

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

— Plato

It's always fun to play the bad guy, that's for sure.

— Carmella

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

— Hayley Atwell

You are who you are by virtue of the company you keep.

— T. B. Joshua

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

— John Adams

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think that the two worlds of fashion and acting world have a lot of common things, because we all build a…

— Joanna Kulig

My character is not sad, not angry. In my house, I'm always laughing, smiling, smiling.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by…

— William Butler Yeats

For me, what is more important is the challenge the character poses for me as an actor.

— Mukesh Tiwari

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

— Om Puri

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

— Holbrook Jackson

“God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.”

— Kim Clement

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either…

— Ray Romano

“You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the…

— Abhijit Naskar

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy…

— Glenda Jackson

What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is…

— Nathan Fillion

Unfortunately, you cannot find honest people everywhere and thusly, really have to watch what you reveal to certain people before you have…

— Koena Mitra

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really…

— Kyra Sedgwick

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be…

— Geoffrey Rush

Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character…

— Fred Thompson

The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's…

— Curtis Hanson

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the…

— William Bennett

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene,…

— Kevin Spacey

“What has come to light is neither nihilism nor cynicism, as one might have expected, but a quite extraordinary confusion over elementary…

— Hannah Arendt

Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs…

— Carlton Mellick III

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood…

— Gong Li

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design…

— Joseph Addison

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of…

— Fredric March

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

— Michael Sheen

I like playing characters with internal problems.

— Michael Eklund

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

— John Wooden

“Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.”

— N.T. Wright

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner