Character Quotes

• That's what character is, it's in the trying.

  

  Eric Taylor
  • Character

• With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Home
  • Language
  • Literature

• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  

  Dele Momodu
  • Wish
  • Reason
  • Frustration

• If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Character
  • Connection
  • Fake

• The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

  

  Arthur B. Robinson
  • Character
  • History
  • Books

• It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions.

  

  Josh Charles
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Moral

• Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Faith
  • Foundation

• That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Job
  • Human
  • Actor

• Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Silver

• I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Character
  • Criticism
  • Censure

• The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.

  

  George O. Wood
  • Nature
  • Purpose
  • Something

• I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Personality
  • Actors
  • Littles

• Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Character
  • Want

• When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

  

  Nick Foles
  • Character
  • Growing
  • Failure

• I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

  

  Richard Roundtree
  • Life
  • Character
  • Shaft

• The very term "turning pages" suggests nonstop action. But I am all about character and beautiful writing. I eat that up like popcorn. Whether a book is action-packed or not, all I need are well-written prose and quirky, fabulous characters to keep me going.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Characters

• My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • People
  • Character
  • Adversity

• But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

  

  John Lloyd Young
  • Character
  • Show
  • Script

• Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Different
  • Character
  • Play

• ...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Thinking
  • Discipline
  • Teaching

• As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Opinion
  • Identity
  • Values

• If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Names

• Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

  

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
  • Actors
  • Build
  • Looking For

• Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.

  

  Michael Welch
  • Thinking
  • Cartoon
  • Beens

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