Character Quotes

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.