Quotes About A Person Character

#1. Things don't make me a person. Character does.

Jhinang

#2. A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

Confucius

#3. The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.

Anne Frank

#4. An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Mickey Kaus

#5. When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Michael Josephson

#7. Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.

Allison Tolman

#8. I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

Stephen Colbert

#9. Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

#10. The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes.

Bill Courtney

#11. Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

David Boreanaz

#12. Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

John C. Maxwell

#13. Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness.

Annette Bening

#15. What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Augustus Hare

#16. I never pick a film based on the genre; I choose the characters I play. I will think it through thoroughly - whether I am the best person to play the character, able to excel in it and match with the other characters.

Rain

#17. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

David Richo

#18. You definitely put a bit of yourself in every character, and you always have to have an understanding and empathy for the person that you play.

Mia Wasikowska

#19. Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

Al Pacino

#20. Never fall for a person's image and status as the may serve as a false representation of character. Watch closely the character and you"ll know who a person really is.

Kemi Sogunle

#21. When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Dougray Scott

#22. There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.

Elisabeth Moss

#23. I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

Bill Shankly

#24. A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.

Michael Josephson

#25. I like to mix the real and the imaginary. Sometimes it is characters inspired by real people I know or know of. Sometimes it is a named person from the common cultural dreamscape. And it is tricky, because they have a lot of associated ideas that come with them, and a lot of actual facts.

Dana Spiotta

#26. It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

Cillian Murphy

#27. I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

Umberto Eco

#28. 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

#29. People say that the real character of a person becomes clearer in times of diversity rather than in times when things are going well.

Ethan Sandlow

#30. Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?

Steven Rodney McQueen

#31. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

#32. To me, character in a person is judged by the decisions that are made under pressure.

Bryan Cranston

#33. Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal agony represent a maddening part of being human. A person can maintain personal dignity by exercising restraint, remaining true to their conscience, and preserving under difficult conditions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. I believe you can't be in authority unless you are under authority, and being under authority takes humility. Humility is the fertile ground in which a person's character grows.

Ty Schenzel

#35. 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

#36. If you feel an aversion to a person
that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him
it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#37. When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

Lorraine Toussaint

#38. A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

Michael Josephson

#39. A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

John Steinbeck

#40. Be the kind of person you want to be attracted to. You will find that you are less and less drawn to people with difficult character issues and more desirous to find people who are full of grace, safety, acceptance, and a hunger to grow.

John Townsend

#41. I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

Jennifer Lawrence

#42. The other, more serious problem associated with cosmetic surgery is that conventional treatments often give people a very unnatural, blank, or stretched look. Wiping all the character from a person's face is the most profound form of identity theft I can imagine.

Marie-Veronique Nadeau

#43. Extreme poverty would be hard to bear, but a miserable person is miserable however rich. A good character is our most important possession, rich or poor.

Alan Ryan

#44. One falls in love with the embodiment of the values that formed a person's character, which are reflected in his widest goals or smallest gestures, which create the style of his soul - the individual style of a unique, unrepeatable, irreplaceable consciousness.

Ayn Rand

#45. Don't become inferior complex person come out and stand by yourself let people tell whatever they want to say but be firm in your words and character.

N.a.

#46. You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

Andrew J. West

#47. The common mistake that bullies make is assuming that because someone is nice that he or she is weak. Those traits have nothing to do with each other. In fact, it takes considerable strength and character to be a good person.

MaryElizabeth Williams

#48. Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.

Brendon Burchard

#49. A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to tell that person's story.

Suzanne Brockmann

#50. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

Richard Sherman

#51. With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Marketa Irglova

#52. On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

Warren Spector

#53. Politics is the only field in which the character of a person does not stand in the way of his career.

Peter Prange

#54. When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.

Vincent Cassel

#55. If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

Colm Meaney

#56. Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

Michael Angarano

#57. Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

Shiv Khera

#58. I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot.

Emma Donoghue

#59. The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Stephen Vizinczey

#60. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#61. A person has to be comfortable in his or her own skin.

Fennel Hudson

#62. I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.

Zoe Bell

#63. What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#64. [W]hat a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Erich Fromm

#65. It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Anne Michaels

#66. Each week the machine is spitting out a number for a new person or a new world within New York that you get to know. And the idea from the beginning was that some of the characters would stick around and become part of the lives of the show, and the world of the show itself will continue to grow.

Jonathan Nolan

#67. People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

Clark Duke

#68. Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

Jon Stewart

#69. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.

Charles Stanley

#70. The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

Anuj

#71. I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Jasper Fforde

#72. Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes ...

Deborah Moggach

#73. Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

Fulton J. Sheen

#74. When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.

Jason Black

#75. A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character ...

John Stuart Mill

#76. Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#77. It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Nora Roberts

#79. See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

Confucius

#80. Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

Damon Galgut

#81. Father: an inspirational person; emulated, admired and much loved; strong character with exceptional patience and unrivalled wisdom; often referred to as a son's first hero and a daughter's first love.

Anonymous

#82. Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.

Steve Alford

#83. We fall in love for a smile, a look, a shoulder. That is enough; then, in the long hours of hope or sorrow, we fabricate a person, we compose a character.

Marcel Proust

#84. John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions!

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

#85. It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

Richard Whately

#86. Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.

Wess Stafford

#87. The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

Anuj

#88. I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.

Gucci Mane

#89. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

John C. Maxwell

#90. The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

John C. Wright

#91. For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

Paul Dano

#92. Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.

Michael Josephson

#93. If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

David Viscott

#94. In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn't too good at anything.

Billy Graham

#95. I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.

Ollie Johnston

#96. My parents had raised me to not judge a person based off the color of their skin but by the composition of their character. A man was nothing if he wasn't true to his word and honorable.

Chelle Bliss

#97. A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.

Michael Josephson

#98. The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.

Ashley Madau

#99. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.

Nicole Guillaume

#100. Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

Anjelica Huston