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  • I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. -- Walter Annenberg
  • I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out! -- Lindsay Lohan
  • If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it. -- Hunter Tylo
  • A jester, a bad character. -- Blaise Pascal
  • A man of bad character punishes his own soul. -- Al-Ghazali
  • The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character. -- James Cook
  • For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him. -- Paul Dano
  • An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed -- Mickey Kaus
  • People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear. -- Dennis Hopper
  • Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance. -- Charlie Munger
  • Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct. -- Edwin J Delattre
  • May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character. -- Umar
  • We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death. -- Thomas Bernhard
  • I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character... -- Gore Vidal
  • When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • There are good characters and bad characters. -- Matt Stone
  • Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? -- Dan Barker
  • An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed. -- Mickey Kaus
  • There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other. -- Noah Hawley
  • I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say. -- Kate Atkinson
  • You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?' -- Paul Dano
  • Bad company corrupts good character. -- Menander
  • Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger. -- Billy Dee Williams
  • I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing. -- Robert Cray
  • Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger. -- Billy Dee Williams
  • Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character. -- Anson Mount
  • I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be. -- Robert McKee
  • Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad. -- Steven Michael Quezada
  • As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character. -- David Sedaris
  • Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work. -- Dee Henderson
  • A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character. -- Scott Ellis
  • Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. -- Hosea Ballou
  • Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it. -- Napoleon Hill
  • I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time. -- Sprague Grayden
  • Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
  • In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart. -- Laura Prepon
  • It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. -- Plutarch
  • God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling. -- Lysa TerKeurst
  • Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage; it will be hard to capture it again! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life. -- Michael Rapaport
  • Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones -- Johnny Flora
  • The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him. -- Vince Gilligan
  • Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'. -- James Frain
  • Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. -- Colm Meaney
  • Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. -- Colm Meaney
  • That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy. -- Nicholas Lea
  • I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't. -- Taryn Manning
  • When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in. -- Patrick Wilson
  • Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical. -- Rutger Hauer
  • Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. -- Matthew Macfadyen
  • Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. -- Suzy Kassem
  • I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play. -- Jim Parsons
  • I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is. -- Aaron Paul
  • There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character. -- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally. -- Michelle MacLaren
  • 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. -- Madchen Amick
  • I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves. -- Madchen Amick
  • Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir. -- R. A. Salvatore
  • I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me. -- Zachary Quinto
  • My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs a very close second. -- Julie Kagawa
  • It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does. -- David Chase
  • I think that Gollum is really the character who is a very human character, and he's very flawed, like most humans are, and has good and bad sides. -- Andy Serkis
  • A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma. -- Amish Tripathi
  • In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with. -- Joaquin Phoenix
  • Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find. -- Bill Skarsgard
  • Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it. -- Marianne Williamson
  • When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things. -- Christian Bale
  • Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are. -- Sergio Leone
  • It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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