Character Quotes

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Character is forged not on the mountaintop but in the valley.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Character is the glue that bonds solid and meaningful relationships

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Gene Wilder characters wanted to be calm, but to the great delight of audiences, they rarely succeeded.

But rules cannot substitute for character.

I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

My character is not flawless.

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.