Character Quotes

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Honesty is the cornerstone of character.

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

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

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

Only men of character are trusted.

What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Character is that which can do without success.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Paint the essential character of things.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.