Quotes About Ones Character

#1. Lust of ease and comfort absolutely destroys mental toughness and begins to slowly erode ones character.

William James Moore

#2. Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Abraham Maslow

#3. Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.

Divine G.

#4. Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs.

David Brooks

#5. To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you. She's one of the good ones.

Erin Watt

#7. Its better to create the Character than to be the Character , because the one behind the scenes are the ones that really get full credit

MiaVictoria

#8. Some say they love you, but some actually "do" the loving. These are the ones that truly love you, because love is seen in actions.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#9. Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are
fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which
the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing
with ideas.

Paul Johnson

#10. I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#11. Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

Erin McCarthy

#12. Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

Mark W. Boyer

#13. I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'

James Caan

#14. We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Thomas Bernhard

#15. In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.

Ernst Haeckel

#16. The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.

Judd Apatow

#17. What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

Jeff Bridges

#18. The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

George Clooney

#19. the only character flaws that can really destroy you are the ones you won't admit.

Timothy J. Keller

#20. I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

Tony Kushner

#21. Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.

Spencer W. Kimball

#22. It's so funny because, when the other world was being hatched and conceived, I just kept hearing, "Don't do that! That's a huge mistake! People love your characters. Why go to these new ones?" And I was like, "No, we can do this! I'm invested. Why wouldn't they be?"

J.H. Wyman

#23. Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

Darrell Royal

#24. Of all people, children are the ones that really understand when there's a truth there for them - an emotional truth. The characters really have to work. Children, as an audience, are very inspirational for me.

Jan Brett

#25. Character is not something one wears on their sleeve, shoulder or badge on their chest. It resides in the core of ones being and his displayed by actions and words.

John Paul Warren

#26. Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

Tracy Morgan

#27. You don't have to be beautiful to be shallow. You needn't be small or weak to be a coward. Shitty personalities come in surprising packages and anybody can be an asshole. So value the good ones, whoever they are. Recognize them when you see them and don't let them go.

Jennifer DeLucy

#28. The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

Alexandra Stoddard

#29. Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Kurt Tucholsky

#30. I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.

Steve Guttenberg

#31. Writers, good ones, don't tell stories.
Characters show stories.

Robert Newton Peck

#32. Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.

Nikolaj Arcel

#33. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

#34. You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.

Channing Tatum

#35. Strong people are ones who can smile for others' happiness.

Veronica Purcell

#36. I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

Helen Oyeyemi

#37. Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.

Neil Gaiman

#38. My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

Rick Heinrichs

#39. It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

Gabriel Mann

#40. I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, 'I really hate you.' And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, 'I really liked your character. Man, he was right!' Those are the ones you worry about.

Stephen Lang

#41. Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

Wallace Stegner

#42. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

Guy Finley

#43. There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw

#44. Character is the line in the sand between the worst of the good people and the best of the bad ones

Johnny Flora

#45. The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

Norman Vincent Peale

#46. The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

Leah Blundell

#47. What appealed to me about 'The Loved Ones' script was that it had this really theatrical element to it. I thought that the scope of this character is so broad, and there is so much fun to be had playing a crazy teenage loner. It was a great way to explore the delusions a mind can create.

Robin McLeavy

#48. I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Peter Sarsgaard

#49. Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Naveen Andrews

#50. Things that only a writer would understand - you're writing a character - you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Lisa Marbly-Warir

#51. A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#52. I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

Nicolas Cage

#53. His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.

Publilius Syrus

#54. One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

Ethan Hawke

#55. Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You're giving a gift. You're helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They'll become real.

James Chartrand

#56. My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.

Marcel Dzama

#57. Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Mason Cooley

#58. The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

Paul Newman

#59. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

Greg Pak

#60. Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

Bertolt Brecht

#61. With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.

John Boyne

#62. I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

Laura Linney

#63. I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

Walt Disney

#64. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Phillips Brooks

#65. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.

Scott Rudin

#66. You have to have sympathy for the villain. Even the most disgusting ones, you have to find something to connect with. I try to put as much of myself in every single character that I play.

Milo Ventimiglia

#67. The techniques and skills that really make a difference in human interaction are the ones that almost naturally flow from a truly independent character.

Anonymous

#68. I loved playing Walternate because he was completely the same character, version 1985, and then it developed in such a different way, physically and mentally. So, to be able to play that, in the same television series, as playing the other ones was a fantastic gift for me.

John Noble

#69. The first heart you win over is that casting director. In first meetings, they'll be the ones who see your pitch for the character. And then as you get further up, they'll be the ones reading with you in front of the network.

Michael Mosley

#70. We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Randy Alcorn

#71. Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

Mamie Van Doren

#72. 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

#73. One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

Graham Greene

#74. Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#75. It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.

Ray Stevenson

#76. Books have sexes; or to be more precise, books have genders. They do in my head, anyway. Or at least, the ones that I write do. And these are genders that have something, but not everything, to do with the gender of the main character of the story.

Neil Gaiman

#77. When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

Willem Dafoe