Character Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.

TRUST took as its starting point the question, What would happen if a movie took the character of a teen-age girl seriously?.

The content of your #‎ character is your #‎ choice.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis...Government should be human. It should have a heart.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.