Character Quotes
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Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
William Howard Taft
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A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
Slash
Guns N' Roses
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
Michael Schur
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People took notice of me and saw that I can carry off light-hearted roles as well. They started talking about Pritam Vidrohi, and it became a lovable character; I saw that people were clapping and whistling. It was a big high to watch this kind of reaction.
Rajkummar Rao
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The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.
Jacques Maritain
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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
D. H. Lawrence
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.
William Hazlitt
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I do weird parts - there's always something wrong with my character, or they are in a really weird situation.
Julia Garner
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
Pam Grier
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Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
Melvin Van Peebles
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I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.
Nicholas Sparks
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The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.
Bill Courtney
