Character Quotes

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes.

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

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.

Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she's a little more edgy and snappy.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Action is character.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.