Character Quotes

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.