Character Quotes

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

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

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

I discovered you can get closer to a characters thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

Imperfections create character.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to what the emotions are that are aroused by the character of music.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

Character is simply habit long continued.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.