Character Quotes

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.

For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

I'm a lurid character!

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

Because it's me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.

I'll always be an outrageous character.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I don't judge the character at all. It's a bit like being someone's defense lawyer - you have to believe in their innocence in order to defend them.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

As an actress, you get to basically be your character.

I can't play a character that I am judging.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

Is Messi a real player or a Play Station character?

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

Real religion is about, developing real character; character of compassion, character of humility, the character of determination to grow in all circumstances.

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.

If the character has the motivation to dance round trees, then I will dance round trees. If the motivation is strong enough, then I'll fly to the moon.

Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.