Character Quotes

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do want to pay respect to that.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

For me, the walk of the character is always the first part that I must define for myself.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't he? Well I liked him in Stand By Me.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Politics ruins the character.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.

My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.