Character Quotes

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Being an #‎ entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes #‎ strength of character to keep going.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

For me, I really feel like a character when I look like them.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

To remain absolutely free is what a true and authentic life is. So never gather any character - remain characterless.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

I don't believe in miracles. I believe in character

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.