Character Quotes
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.
A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.
Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.
It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've played have not been low key and naturalistic.
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.
Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.
....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to the reader.
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.
Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense?
Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?
The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.
Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
While I'm trying to be a villain, Tyler Posey's just making me break character all the time. It's hilarious.
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.