Quotes About Character

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

There's an actor in the TV show 'Prison Break,' Robert Knepper, who plays a violent sociopath, and he's just incredible in that role.

'Vikings' has been so many different challenges, and some of that is, at times, you have to be big and imposing and violent and vicious, and then you have be pulled back and withdrawn and just more layers and more time to portray those layers, too.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.

It doesn't feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.

My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he's qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes judging women on the basis of their looks, which he seems to believe amounts to the sum of their character.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

'D' is about a guy who starts off somewhere, and he's a very thinking kind of a guy. He's not an emotional person; he doesn't react to situations. Instead, he's virtually choreographing the situations. So it's a development of a character.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.