Character Quotes

Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Character is what you are in the dark.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

No amount of talents, skills or charisma can sustain us the way integrity, character & attitude does.

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

I like very dry humor. I dont like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.

I don't pretend to be the character. I am the character.

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.