Character Quotes

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

I want to do my Blade Runner, which is like a future Berlin film, which is like a thriller, but it's much deeper characters, I think.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

You've gotta separate yourself from the character. It's hard... so it can make its way into your everyday life.

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

Make sure your main characters are likeable. They can be flawed, but your readers need to be able to root for them.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

Telling the truth ... is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character

"I am bored" generally means "I am boring."

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

In '7th Heaven,' more than 'Teen Wolf,' was that I got to learn more about my character. In 'Teen Wolf,' I'd always get a new arc for that character every season, which was discovery for me.

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.

The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.