Character Definition Quotes

#1. I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who you are and where your heart and character stands.

Cody Johnson

#2. He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob
perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#3. At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

Kurt Busiek

#4. Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

Tatiana Maslany

#5. Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

Alan Dershowitz

#6. My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance ... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.

Samuel Beckett

#7. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.

Debasish Mridha

#8. My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

James Cromwell

#9. It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.

James Madison

#10. People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

James Gleick

#11. Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

Stephen Fry

#12. Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.

Maureen Johnson

#13. The Enneagram is not a system of personality, as it is so often presented, but rather a definition of character fixation. The same character fixation can manifest across a full range of personalities. Jack Nicholson and Slobodan Milosevic have the same character fixation but different personalities.

Eli Jaxon-Bear

#14. My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#15. What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.

Kurt Busiek

#16. Knock the 't' off the 'can't'

George Reeves

#17. After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

Luo Guanzhong

#19. I've never taken myself too seriously.

Omar Epps

#20. This isn't love. It's something broken and ugly. I wanted it so badly I didn't care what it looked like.

Amanda Grace

#21. I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.

Martin Starr

#22. The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.

Sinclair Lewis

#23. The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

Theodore Dreiser

#24. Intentions must mature into commitments if we are to become persons with definition, with character, with substance.

Eugene H. Peterson

#25. With so many willing, complex women in the world, he had little respect for men who fixated on girlishness. Innocence was, by definition, an absence of experience - character - knowledge. To desire that absence seemed rather deviant.

Meredith Duran

#26. It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Abraham Lincoln