Top 100 Character Important Quotes
#1. If we think of the novel and the epic ... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero
a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.
Jorge Luis Borges
#2. I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
#3. 'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep ... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.
Ana Ortiz
#4. I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving to and educating an audience. So I tend to go with people who are complex and substantive.
Judith Light
#5. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Myles Munroe
#6. It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice
Fela Durotoye
#7. Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.
Lucrecia Martel
#8. You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.
Loren Bouchard
#9. I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.
Kit Williamson
#10. What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
Colin Powell
#11. It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
David Ogden Stiers
#12. I think character is real important. And you know, and I think the public does.
Tom Selleck
#13. Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#14. What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever.
Rick Warren
#15. A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.
Toni Servillo
#16. I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
Chris Meledandri
#17. I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with ... or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
Alicia Witt
#18. I know it sounds silly, but in auditions for film or TV, the words aren't as important - you need to get into the character and have the gist of the scene. But in theater, if you don't do it word for word, then you throw off your scene partner.
Morgan Saylor
#19. There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.
Jessica Pare
#20. Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
Tabitha King
#21. No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do ... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
Dabney Coleman
#22. Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.
Robert Baden-Powell
#23. Thierry is the best striker in the world. By far he's the best in the world. Thierry doesn't just score goals. Even when he's not having a good day he can make an important pass. He is a strong character. If things go wrong, he bounces straight back. His effect on the club is very big.
Patrick Vieira
#24. At the end of the day, it's a show [Daredevil ] not about a superhero, but it's about a man. Hopefully, that's what we're doing with The Punisher, as well. It's an enormous honor to play this character. It's a character that's quite iconic and very important to a lot of people.
Jon Bernthal
#25. Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
Alan Lightman
#26. Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.
Denis Waitley
#27. To be able to let you know who someone is in just a couple of words, I'd have to pick the most pronounced features of a character's personality. And I always feel like I'm leaving out so many important little ones.
Lisa Kudrow
#28. The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
Barack Obama
#29. The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.
James Heckman
#30. I think that with everything I've done, in the end, whoever the central character is, they would find a way to forgive, because that's really important to me.
Tyler Perry
#31. After twenty years of studying millionaires across a wide spectrum of industries, we have concluded that the character of the business owner is more important in predicting his level of wealth than the classification of his business. But
Thomas J. Stanley
#32. The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.
Zack Snyder
#33. And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
Anna Friel
#34. To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.
Stan Lee
#35. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun. And when I say somebody else, of course I mean Jason Bateman. He's born to play boring characters because he's such a bore. He's one of the most boring human beings.
Will Arnett
#36. The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
Nora Roberts
#37. The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am ... not all actors approach it that way.
Stephen Lang
#38. Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice.
Diana Gabaldon
#39. A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.
Bill Skarsgard
#40. I've never heard a eulogy about a person where they talk about the value of wealth and how much money the've left behind. They only talk about the character ,love, integrity, humour strength etc.
So why is it so important to some that they lose sight of everything else in life ?
Lou Silluzio
#41. I think getting something together to showcase your voice is important. You can also watch cartoons and play games and just kinda listen, and try to see how the design of the character matches to the voice.
Ashly Burch
#42. Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.
Amandla Stenberg
#43. In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's
Megan Marshall
#44. What I love about the filmmakers that I mentioned [Danny Boyle,Leo Carax], is that it's visual but it's also, you see that the characters are the most important thing. The actors are the most important thing.
Fredrik Bond
#45. Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each of these virtues are independently important but together they provide the foundation for a worthy life.
Michael Josephson
#46. A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.
Ami McKay
#47. Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body's changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.
Thomas Moore
#48. What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
Michael Connelly
#49. You have to understand, in this fight, the physical condition and technical preparation are not as important as character and will. The one who's willing to go until the end will win the match.
Ruslan Provodnikov
#50. As we age, there are different things that become important to us and that means that different aspects of our character come to the forefront; certain aspects recede. And that's fun. It would be shitty to have to imitate myself.
David Duchovny
#51. Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.
Tom Johnson
#52. The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#53. Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.
Gia Coppola
#54. It was important for me early on to find the voice of each character and figure out what was unique about them and their individual worldview that I could use for comedy or conflict.
Maria Semple
#55. For me it's important to get the origin of the character like in the Richard Donner superman. We saw him became slowly a super hero but i think it's important to take time and stay realistic.
Xavier Gens
#56. As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.
Wendy McElroy
#57. When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.
William James Moore
#58. It is important not to confuse personality with character. Personality is what you display when the spotlight is on you. Character, on the other hand, is who you really are when the lights are off.
E. Marcel Jones
#59. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life
Katie Heaney
#60. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
Alan Sakowitz
#61. Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
Mark Shields
#62. I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.
Gale Harold
#63. So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.
Kevin McDonald
#64. I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Anne Enright
#65. It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.
Jeanette Winterson
#66. We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it a big story. The goal for Aquaman was to position him as an A-list character; position him as an important member of the Justice League.
Geoff Johns
#67. The important thing is character. It's my character I've got to mould. I'm sure one can do anything with oneself if one tries. It's only a matter of will.
W. Somerset Maugham
#69. In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.
Haifaa Al-Mansour
#70. Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.
Veena Sud
#71. I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings.
Ronald Reagan
#72. Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me care about what happens to them.
Alan Ball
#73. When developing a business story, keep in mind that the opposition character (shadow) is just as important as the audience character (hero) is.
Luis Cubero
#74. The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.
Amos Oz
#75. I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.
Deb Caletti
#76. I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.
Harrison Ford
#77. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
Marge Piercy
#78. Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.
Rick Warren
#79. The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.
Sunday Adelaja
#80. He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.
Neal A. Maxwell
#81. The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
Brenda Barnes
#82. 'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.
Ludivine Sagnier
#83. But there is something seductive and the character, Alfie is so charming, and does make you think like you are the most important thing in the world but he's not that nice, is he.
Sienna Miller
#84. Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'
Lauren Bacall
#85. The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
Jesse Robredo
#86. It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
Bo Burnham
#87. It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important issues. Those issues are what make us human.
Patrick Rothfuss
#88. No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#89. A compliment about one's nature is more important because a person has to choose how to behave, whilst a compliment about one's appearance doesn't mean overly much because there is no choice involved there.
Julie Garwood
#90. Worse, the bodies of women, minorities, children, disenfranchised bodies (prisoners, so-called nut cases, etc ... ) and their truths don't "count" as either present and important in society or worth Pulitzer prizes as characters in literature.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#91. We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.
Myles Munroe
#92. You never know when you're on a show if you're actually going to love it. For the episodes that I'm not in, I read them, but I try to just forget it, as long as it isn't important to my character. That way when the episodes air I get to watch it like a fan and actually enjoy it.
Fiona Gubelmann
#93. I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.
Elisha Cuthbert
#94. I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.
Alden Ehrenreich
#95. I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.
Walter Mosley
#96. It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.
Kelly Lynch
#97. It's important to me that the reader goes on a ride with the characters, that you set context enough to know, "Okay, here's where we are in the world. Now we're just going to go inside this person's head, this guy's heart, this woman's ambitions and take it down to very, very small scale."
Don Winslow
#98. The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
#99. I think it's always important to put your own spin and bring your essence to whatever character you play.
Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
#100. The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.
John Ortberg
