Character Quotes

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.