Character Quotes

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

It's really hard to find just a simple character-driven drama, outside of a genre, that was available to direct, except for on TV.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

plot is character in action.

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.

Character comes before scholarship.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

I hope I will be religious again but as for regaining my character I despare.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

Nice characters are boring!

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.