Character Quotes

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things.

As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

I'm a character actress.

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.