Top 100 Character Is Quotes
#1. I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
Scott Cohen
#2. Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
Edward Abbey
#3. Man had to invent and create out of himself the limitations of perception and the equanimity to live on this planet. And so to the core of psychodynamics, the formation of the human character, is a study in human self-limitation and in the terrifying costs of that limitation.
Ernest Becker
#4. With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.
Richard M. Nixon
#5. A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.
Clare Eames
#6. One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.
Melissa Rosenberg
#7. A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
#8. Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.
Ashley Madekwe
#9. Only then, when no situation or character is obviously good or evil, is it truly interesting to act.
Liv Ullmann
#10. Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.
Roger Ebert
#11. Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad.
Ask Boromir.
R.A. Salvatore
#12. I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.
Jeremy Corbyn
#13. I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.
Helen Mirren
#14. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.
Terry Goodkind
#15. Because I know that my character is developed from my own acts and thoughts, I will guard with care all that goes into its development.
Napoleon Hill
#16. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. I love the fact that we've made a film that not only the whole family can go to and enjoy but, you know, it's actually having an effect. You know, Rey's character is a tough woman who your 6-year-old can pick up a lightsaber now and go for it.
Maryann Brandon
#18. Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
Aimee Bender
#19. Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#20. Character is the real you-"the you in you that makes you the you, you are". "the hidden man of the heart
Ikechukwu Joseph
#21. The formation of Stalin's character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#23. I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.
Tye Sheridan
#24. Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.
Sam Shepard
#25. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#26. Success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.
J. Willard Marriott
#27. Character is simply habit long continued.
Plutarch
#28. David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.
Sheldon Siegel
#29. Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
#30. Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.
Michael Josephson
#31. I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly beautiful, and there's nothing else said about her, it just doesn't hold a lot of interest for me.
Amy Adams
#32. It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
Jeff Goldblum
#33. To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
Michael Emerson
#34. The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
Ben Kingsley
#35. I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.
Wentworth Miller
#36. Character is standing tall and guiding others.
Saru Singhal
#37. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
#39. A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.
Navonne Johns
#40. Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.
Samuel Smiles
#41. What it comes down to is I don't mind if Superman kills people because he has no reason not to kill people. I know that one of the tenets of the character is that he doesn't, but the reason that he doesn't is because having that much power makes you responsible for weaker people.
Max Landis
#42. His character is like an emerald - multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.
Melika Dannese Lux
#43. [On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
Mary Russell Mitford
#45. Its emotional character ... is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency - sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying - are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.
David Foster Wallace
#46. The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
Greg Kinnear
#47. I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.
Tinie Tempah
#48. I loved 'Lobo' in the '90s, but I think that character is hard to connect with, especially for new readers.
Cullen Bunn
#50. When you die you say "Game Over" and that's all the game is over. You as an actor you die with this character stuff, but a new character is build.
Deyth Banger
#51. This guy was a real Pscyho' Mr. Levy said.
'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before.
John Kennedy Toole
#52. That's what character is, it's in the trying.
Eric Taylor
#54. The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.
Miguel Syjuco
#55. Character is a wish for a perfect education.
Novalis
#56. The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
John Ortberg
#57. Character is what you do when no one's looking.
Sophie Jordan
#58. Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#59. What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.
Pat Pattison
#60. The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
William Gilmore Simms
#62. It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.
Henry Drummond
#63. Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.
Steve Jones Snr
#64. With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease
because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
Susan Sontag
#66. We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
Ruth Rendell
#67. As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.
Kristen Bell
#68. Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
Benjamin Disraeli
#69. The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'
Brina Palencia
#70. What you express in your character is what your lifestyle crowns
Sunday Adelaja
#71. It's easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#72. One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
Epictetus
#73. Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
#74. 'Huge' is a show about self-discovery and follows kids at a weight loss camp. My character is shy, so when she meets Nikki Blonsky's character Willamena Rader, who's not, they become friends.
Raven Goodwin
#75. Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.
Sathya Sai Baba
#76. I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.
Juno Temple
#77. Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.
David S.Goyer
#78. The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
George Orwell
#79. The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
Oswald Chambers
#80. We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley
#81. My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.
Lleyton Hewitt
#82. Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
David O. McKay
#83. No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
#84. I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.
Joel Kinnaman
#85. When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.
Luigi Pirandello
#87. A lot of times when you do things where you're killing people, the character is always having an existential crisis about it. It's fun to be no-holds-barred and have no big crisis of conscious.
Rose McGowan
#88. Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
Alice McDermott
#89. Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
Taya Kyle
#90. It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#91. When we help others to perform at the highest level of their potential, we receive something of value; our character is strengthened.
Ellen J. Barrier
#92. Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.
Matthew Kelly
#93. The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.
Sathya Sai Baba
#94. Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
Paul Park
#95. Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
Tom Ford
#96. Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.
Vanna Bonta
#97. Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana
#98. Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Aaron Sorkin
#99. Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.
Mark W. Boyer
#100. Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
