Character Quotes

Come seeking to know Him, and I promise you will find Him and see Him in His true character as the risen, redeeming Savior of the world.

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

Well, I'm also like 23 and playing 16. So maybe when I'm 30 I'll be playing characters in their early 20s. I don't know.

The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.

Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.

Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story or provide necessary background.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to BE another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

I think a few of my most visible roles are crazy or peppy girls, but I've played a lot of characters who are soldiers, or fighters, or meditative characters, and a lot of this stuff hasn't come out.

I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.