Character Quotes

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

[May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

You have to play the logic of a character.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I don't enter into particulars with [Ennio Morricone]. I give him the feeling and the suggestions of the characters.

How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success. It's treasures are priceless - but they can be stolen.

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together.

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.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

For me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.

To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.

I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.