Character Quotes

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Have character, don't be one.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

I think if you play characters, it's very important not to ever tag them with any sort of disorder, or diagnose them, or whatever. You have to normalize the behavior to get inside the character.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.