Character Quotes

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

Also expressionistic filmmaking - making the audience feel like they were inside the characters' heads. And so we create all these different types of techniques to put the audience there.

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame

Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

A jester, a bad character.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I've read all the "Game of Thrones" books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

I worked on my voice for 'Sweet Dreams' but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

You can escape into a character.

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.