Character Quotes
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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Your thoughts determine your actions. Your actions create your habits. Your habits form your character. Your character determines your destiny.
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Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany.
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Yes, I play this evil, mean character Victoria in 'Baywatch.' It is so much fun. I didn't want my first film in America to be just another role.
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I love indie movies - I feel they can really allow you to develop a character.
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The great thing about playing a character that's similar to the audience, or similar to you, is that you get to have the same reaction that you would actually have to whatever's going on.
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I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.
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The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are going to have to face: what the character story is within the action sequence.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
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I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
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Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.
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There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
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The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
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The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances that surround your character.
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I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
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In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
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I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
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Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.
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There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.
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I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
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In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.
