Character Quotes

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

You never want to play too vampiric or generically evil, so you look for emotions or character traits that you can relate to.

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

Most women have no characters at all.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

Meditation changes your character.

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.