Character Quotes

It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

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?'

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

Habit is the daily battleground of character

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

Character is who you are when no one is looking.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters, pictures, and stories. So they resonate.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate.

Every sport has its own cast of characters.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.

Success builds character, failure reveals it.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.