Top 1200 Moral Character Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, and he didn't do that - he wore his character from head to toe.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you become the character, you just start bringing more and more of yourself to the part until the character and actor, it's hard to tell them apart. It's some weird amalgam. In film, because of the period of time, I don't know that you ever get that deep into it.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It's a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

That's what we do in the WWE: we tell stories; we're characters. We go into the ring, and my character is telling a story in the ring against another character.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.

Every time you see someone saying a character's too this or too that, those are the things that make a character.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

When I create a character, particularly my central character, I want someone who is interesting and feels real and who might have quite a few virtues but is unlikely to be perfect, who hasn't necessarily made all the right choices.

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.

There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and great books, as flawed as they might be, articulate a moral argument that the reader then carries forward. The critique to this model is, of course, to ask: Should a book be ever so perfect that you come out of it with complete moral agreement that can be sustained?

You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit, every cruelty, every wrong, reaches back sooner or later and crushes its author. Justice is moral health, bringing happiness, wrong is moral disease, bringing mortal death.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.

In 'Kalank,' I am playing a character, which is quite strong, quiet a little complex yet interesting, that drew me towards the character when I heard the narration from director Abhishek Varman.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

One of the things that I love so much about the character of Sally Bowles is that she is such a huge character - she is so roomy.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.