Quotes about: character

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
– Kim Kardashian
There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
– Salma Hayek
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
– Gary Gygax
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
– Orison Swett Marden
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
– Elizabeth Moon
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
– David Duchovny
Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
– Joe Nichols
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
– Albert Schweitzer
The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.
– Ezra Miller
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
– Charles Stanley
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.
– Charles Babbage
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
– Augustus Hare
The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.
– Mark Goddard
The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
– Chuck Palahniuk
The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
– Mary Lynn Rajskub
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
– Allan Houston
The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
– Roy L. Smith
The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.
– Drew Barrymore
The great hope of society is in individual character.
– William Ellery Channing
The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
– Zig Ziglar
The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
– Terry Gross
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
– Peter De Vries
The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
– Jeri Ryan
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
– Margaret Fuller
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
– Paul M. Glaser
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
– Haley Joel Osment
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
– Anne Tyler
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
– Jean Claude Van Damme
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
– P. G. Wodehouse
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
– Arnold Palmer
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
– Henry Drummond
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
– Billie Jean King
Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
– Zac Efron
Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
– Diablo Cody
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
– Sergio Aragones
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
– David Mitchell
Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
– Marilyn Monroe
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
– Joaquin Phoenix
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
– Esther Williams
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
– Carroll O'Connor
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
– James Russell Lowell
So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
– Blake Lively
So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.
– Dennis Muren
So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
– Olivia Wilde
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
– Irving Langmuir
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
– John Polkinghorne
Politics ruins the character.
– Otto von Bismarck
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
– Horace Walpole
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
– Shawn Ashmore
Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
– Antonio Banderas
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
– Billy Graham
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
– C. L. R. James
One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
– Melissa Rosenberg
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
– Elizabeth Moss
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
– General Robert E. Lee
Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.
– Richard Hammond
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
– Jeff Bridges
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
– Marcelene Cox
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
– William James
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
– David Seabury
My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
– Beth Ditto
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
– Lance Armstrong
My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.
– Olivia Williams
My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.
– Christian Bale
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
– Harrison Ford
My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
– Mayer Hawthorne
My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
– Gregory Hines
My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.
– Emily Watson
Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
– Nancy Meyers
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
– Juliette Binoche
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
– Albert Einstein
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
– Todd Rundgren
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
– Ibrahim Babangida
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
– Gary Ryan Blair
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
– Linda Lavin
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
– Robert Browning
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.
– Glenn Beck
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
– Bruce Lee
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
– Daniel H. Hill
It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
– Jeff Goldblum
It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
– Spike Jonze
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.
– Jack Nicholson
It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.
– Eric Holder
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
– Peter Mayhew
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
– Muhammad Iqbal
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
– William James
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
– Harry Reid
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
– Christian Lous Lange
Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
– William James
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
– Harvey Fierstein
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
– Terry Pratchett
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
– Edward Hopper
In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.
– Ajay Naidu