Character Quotes

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

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 like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

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.

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

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

Outrageous generosity is a character quality of people who win with money.

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Imperfections create character.

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.

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