My Character Speaks For Itself Quotes

#1. We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

Dennis Lehane

#2. It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Edith Sitwell

#3. The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.

William Henry Ashley

#4. A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Boleslaw Prus

#5. When someone initiates kindness anonymously, you know it comes from the most pure, kind-hearted part of them because they'll probably never be singled out and thanked. It speaks to his character.

Kim Holden

#6. All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

James Buchanan

#7. It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

Roger Ebert

#8. Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

Ashley Madekwe

#9. This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

Nile Rodgers

#11. What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.

Nathan Fillion

#12. What they say doesn't matter because it can be lies, but it's what they do that matters because it always speaks truth.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#13. I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.

Guy Ritchie

#14. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#15. I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.

Sundra Oakley

#16. He hugged her. "Be strong for me, Tatiana," Alexander said hoarsely. "Save yourself for me." "That's what I do, Shura," Tatiana said. "I save myself for you." Alexander bent to her, but she couldn't even look up. He kissed the top of her hat. They held on for a few more seconds.

Paullina Simons

#17. Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

Winona Ryder

#18. Sometimes standing alone makes you stronger than hiding in a group. When you choose to stand when those close to you are sitting down, it speaks volumes about your integrity and character. It's when those who stand alone come together that the opposite is true.

Lori Goodwin

#19. 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

#20. It seems to me that a lot of people are using religious arguments to advance their own prejudices.

Russell Brand

#21. A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

Thomas Jefferson

#22. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'

Abu Hurairah

#23. At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.

Heidi Priebe

#24. Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical.

Loretta Swit

#25. He said that there would be more information available in the narthex. I leaned over to Matthew and whispered, The Narthex? Isn't that a Dr. Suess character that speaks for the trees??

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#26. When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

Fefe Dobson

#27. there is no such thing as a character in a script, only words on a page. An actor speaks these words of dialogue, and so the reader forms a sense of an actual person, though the character himself is an illusion.

Karl Iglesias

#28. And how sweet that would have been: the two of them back by the milk shed, squatting by the churn, smashing cold, lumpy butter into their faces with not a care in the world.

Toni Morrison

#29. A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them.

Anuj

#30. The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls

Lori Lansens

#31. I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

Eli Wallach

#32. Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

Alan Rickman

#33. Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.

Catherine Asaro

#34. And I lived in a dorm full of girls, all on the same damn menstrual schedule, so the fact that you're worse than all of them combined speaks volumes about your character.

Jessica Prince

#35. A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor. On

Fulton J. Sheen

#36. It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

Colleen McCullough

#37. [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#38. He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character

Charles C. Mann

#39. I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

Martha Plimpton