Character Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70′s Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other.

If it is a clichй to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.

I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

I prefer to channel my problems and inner demons through a character. Another persona. That protects me and my family. I can get my frustrations out that way.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

I can't impersonate someone. That is not what I do. I can only take someone's essence and create a character out of that.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.

I'd always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

Character is victory organized.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

In a lot of ways, the make-up was the character.

A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.