Character Quotes
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We must renew our commitment to instilling high moral character in our students, to teaching them to treat each other with kindness, to stand up for what is right, and to respect the diversity of backgrounds and experiences that strengthen our country.
Eva Moskowitz
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
Evan Esar
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I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all along. My impression is that The Flash is a show about a boy's journey into manhood. For the Flash character, there is a variety of male models presented to him, and Captain Cold is one of them.
Wentworth Miller
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Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
Cunningham Geikie
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Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.
Dolly Parton
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
Harry S Truman
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To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
Michael Emerson
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Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.
April Parker Jones
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I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth; and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength, as a personal challenge that gave me strength and understanding and in which I invested all my heart.
Cristina Garcia Rodero
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Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.
Hayao Miyazaki
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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
Denzel Whitaker
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Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.
Ethan Canin
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I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.
Essie Davis
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Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Mother Teresa
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There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.
Walter Wright
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Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Carroll O'Connor
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The judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.
Sarah Fielding
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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
James Cromwell
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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
Joshua Foer
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When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.
Michael Caine
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I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, I can face it. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
Cecelia Ahern
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The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
Carson McCullers
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Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.
Evan Rachel Wood