Character Quotes

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.

As your enemies and your friends, so are you

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World

The history of a man is in his character.

I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]

What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

People watch me when I get into these characters that I have in my head, so perhaps I should try acting. So I did.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

There are no characters in the limited series Fargo that are derived from the characters in the film Fargo. It's hard to describe how remarkably true to the film the show is.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.