Character Quotes

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

We become the books we read.

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

It's strange that ''Evangelion'' has become such a hit - all the characters are so sick!

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for "as he thinketh within himself, so is he."

Character is more important than talent.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Hire character. Train skill.

It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That's more fun to me than just reading lines.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

The first step to a better audition is to give up character and use yourself.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.