Character Quotes
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
Stockard Channing
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My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
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If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.
Cary Elwes
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You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.
Claire Messud
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.
Michael Caine
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Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
Confucius
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Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."
Will Kimbrough
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Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
Adriana Trigiani
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But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.
Mike Schmidt
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I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.
Rich Sommer
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You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
Georgina Haig
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle
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There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
Dennis Rodman
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I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.
Alissa Nutting
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
Lev Yilmaz
