Character Quotes

• 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
  • Remember
  • Culture
  • Party

• I'm all for whatever it takes to get wherever you need to get with a character, as long as you don't wipe it on me.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character

• I think a character in a comedy should not know they`re in a comedy.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Character
  • Know
  • Comedy

• Choices determine character.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Character
  • Choices
  • Determine

• I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Character
  • Optimistic

• Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Integrity
  • Function
  • Capacity

• Being able to channel my creativity, emotions and experience through a character was and is freedom for me.

  

  April Parker Jones
  • Freedom
  • Emotions
  • Channel

• I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Write
  • Demon
  • Inner

• The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Mean
  • Personality

• Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

  

  William Jewett Tucker
  • Strong
  • Ambition
  • Intellectual

• I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Character
  • Find
  • Scary

• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Constitution

• If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Succeed

• Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Character
  • Write

• As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

  

  Denzel Whitaker
  • Character
  • Acting
  • Actor

• 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
  • Life
  • Character
  • Pickup

• It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Struggle
  • Challenges
  • Compliment

• It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Fate

• We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Challenges
  • Obstacles
  • Overcoming

• Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Inner

• I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Power
  • Actors
  • Changed

• Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Nation
  • Citizens
  • Communities

• What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Ideas
  • Singing
  • Theatre

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