Character Quotes

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

I don't want to be a stereotype; I want a character that's aspirational.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

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

A man's got to know his limitations.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

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.

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

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.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

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

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.

... 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.

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.

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

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 put heavy emphasis on the characters.