Quotes About Character

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely important to take into consideration qualities that will last.

I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men.

Women are much more honourable than men.

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye.

I want to play interesting women.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.