Character Quotes

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.

There is more story in a minor character like Boba Fett than there is in all the clutter of various vampires in the Twilight franchise.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Action is character.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

I'm like a magpie. I use lots of different things to build a character.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

I'm very sassy. I want to show people in my album I'm not like my characters on TV.

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Dr. McDreamy, that's what I call Patrick's character. He's gorgeous, he's got a great body and he's got damn fine hair.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

Habits change into character.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

No sir. The first thing is character.

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.