Character Quotes
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It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.
Jason Lee
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
Jerry Falwell
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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
Paddy Considine
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If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.
Barry Sloane
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Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the National character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.
James Madison
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I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented.
Deborah Ann Woll
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The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.
Manmohan Singh
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Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.
M. K. Asante
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For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
Vin Diesel
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Here is one of the biggest games I've ever been at, and Patrick Ramsey has to go in and try and win it for us. He's handled this situation better than I think anybody could, and it's a tribute to his character. He was ready. He stepped in and made some plays for us.
Joe Gibbs
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My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
Ashley Scott
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
Anthony Bourdain
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There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.
Liam Cunningham
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It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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As a character, you're working within the realm of what's on the script page.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.
Michael Rapaport
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I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
David A. Adler
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I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
Jean-Marc Vallee
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I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
Imogen Poots
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
Billie Jean King
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.
Humphry Davy
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Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.
Boris Yeltsin