Character Quotes

Everyone wants the two characters to be together, but then once they are, it's not that much fun.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.

I always try doing a different character for every film so it's not just changing one.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.

I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in.

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character.

Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

The knock at the door tells the character of the visitor!

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.