Character Quotes

For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character

TV is providing such amazing possibilities - you have such lively characters, fantastic stories and ambiguous messages, and viewers feel very satisfied.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.

Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make the book good.

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.

courage is the gift of character

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

If you're going to play a character who has a deformed face, you should have a deformed face.

The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

You have to find out how to become the character.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more he speaks, the more his real character shows.