Character Quotes

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.]

The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

A cross between Leo [DiCaprio]'s character in Catch Me If You Can and ... I don't know, I really like any of his movies.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. We're all people, and go through similar emotions.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.