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Character Quotes by Roger Ebert
- We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in…
- When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience;…
- In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called…
- It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
- One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are…
- The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of…
- Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle