Character Quotes
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
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We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
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The great hope of society is in individual character
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
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I think you've got to understand your character and where they're coming from.
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The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.
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Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.
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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
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It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.
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Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
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You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.
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There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense of the word.
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.
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No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.
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Christ's character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
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I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.
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Courage is the gift of character.
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My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.
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There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
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You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service. You've got to live a life of complete and total integrity in order to give this kind of service. This integrity enables you to love other people unconditionally, to be courageous and kind at the same time, because you have integratedness inside your own soul.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
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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.
