Your Character Quotes

#1. Acting is not just impersonating your character.

Michelle Yeoh

#2. One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

Epictetus

#3. Your behavior is the testimony of your character.

Saru Singhal

#4. If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

Steve Schirripa

#5. Being lesbian isn't a way of life, it's a trivial attribute that doesn't change your character.

Lisa Wheeler

#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. In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or the intention of your character's journey will be in the story. You don't have control. Sometimes that's wonderful, and sometimes that can be scary.

Shannyn Sossamon

#8. By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.

William Trevor

#9. The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Joseph Fiennes

#10. Joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, love, evil, greed. Where is your heart at? This world is like a furnace you temper yourself, and your character. This is the same for everyone.

Da Xia

#11. Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#12. When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

Michael Bassey

#13. That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

Henry Cloud

#14. He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

Nouman Ali Khan

#15. What does it say about your character if you do bad things while claiming it's all in the name of good?

Ernie Lindsey

#16. I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin ...

John Geddes

#17. Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.

Denis Waitley

#18. You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.

Oren Arnold

#19. Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

John Wooden

#20. You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

Nadia Bjorlin

#21. I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

Samantha Morton

#22. You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

Paul Dano

#23. You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never seen as one particular thing, or that's who you'll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.

Amanda Schull

#24. It's not the job of an actor to judge your character

Daniel Craig

#25. The definition of your life is you and your character. So define yourself in your own way.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Horace

#27. I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

Anna Kendrick

#28. I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into it 100% and try to live in that world, and then when it's over, just sort of be able to leave it behind.

Jonathan Groff

#29. I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!

Anne Frank

#30. With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

Kaitlin Olson

#31. The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Charles Stanley

#32. When you are creating your character there are a lot of questions and sometimes you doubt if you are making the right choices.

Peter Facinelli

#33. Bring in the light and the evil goes in a moment. Build up your character, and manifest your real nature, the Effulgent, the Resplendent, the Ever-Pure, and call It up in everyone that you see.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. People doing rote assembly-line movements, or someone tossing dough over and over in a pizza parlour is boring. It's boring to watch and boring to perform. But if you're a bad pizza thrower who drops the dough or watches it stick to the ceiling, then we know something more about your character.

Mark Sutton

#35. If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

Emmet Fox

#36. One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'

Josh Dun

#37. 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

#38. The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

Clive Thompson

#39. I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

Brenda Russell

#40. In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

David Walton

#41. You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Mignon McLaughlin

#42. Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

H. P. Blavatsky

#43. Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Laura Schlessinger

#44. Life changes. It's usually in the blink of an eye. One minute everything's fine, if not stagnant; then, it's not. But your character's not defined by what happens to you but by how you respond to those emotionally significant events. Who will you become when your life turns on a dime?

Bobby Cole

#45. Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

John C. Maxwell

#46. It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Sissy Spacek

#47. You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do.

Chris Hemsworth

#48. Beware of your thoughts for they become words, beware of your words for they become actions, beware of your actions for they become habits, beware of your habits for they become character, beware of your character for it becomes your destiny.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#49. To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

#50. To have even one year when you're presented with choices that can alter your circumstances, your character, your course- that's by the grace of God alone. And it shouldn't come without a price.

Amor Towles

#51. It's never very useful to see your character as a villain. You have to play them the way they see themselves.

Lucy Lawless

#52. The way you handle your problems shows your character.

Kishore Bansal

#53. Is it the problem in my conclusion or is it in you... it's difficult to say I can say for sure Dean Koontz audiobooks I have them on few clicks away... but I can't say anything about your character... it's very soft... lazy and not serious.... you want a lit of with process 0%.

Deyth Banger

#54. No magic formula can completely prepare us for crises in life. However, each choice we make now will impact how we handle those crises in the future. Make your choice count. Dedicate time each day to developing your character. If you do, courage will be there when you need it most.

Rudy Giuliani

#55. great attitude make your character and sets your path.

Jose Melendez

#56. Listen: Love your fiction, even if you hate the act of creating that fiction, love the stories to a fault. Cry at your tragedies, laugh at your jokes, rejoice at your character's victories - or give it all up and go knit a damned sweater, instead.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#57. The success of your personal brand is hooked to your character, not your brand tangibles

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#58. The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

Val Kilmer

#59. If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

Craig Groeschel

#60. One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.

Chris Kluwe

#61. Don't use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little.

Stella Adler

#62. It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.

Laura Fraser

#63. Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Rod Paige

#64. In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

Andy Daly

#65. Your reputation is what you're perceived to be,
Your character is what you really are

John Wooden

#66. Read the script as a fan and try to create this community in your head. That's the thing that a lot of people tend to forget - it's not just about your character. Even if you're a lead, you're still supporting the supporting the entire story.

Chris Zylka

#67. God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

Tommy Tenney

#68. I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.

Imogen Poots

#69. The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting

Donald Miller

#70. Each wrong choice grows your character and strengthens your resilience, readying you for what comes next.

Jeff Goins

#71. Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character.

Beau Sides

#72. Act in accordance with your true beliefs by spending your time on those things that will build and develop your character and help you become more Christlike. I hope none of you see life as primarily fun and games but rather as a time 'to prepare to meet God.'

Quentin L. Cook

#73. Meditation changes your character.

Henepola Gunaratana

#74. You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

Robert Patrick

#75. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.

Joyce Rachelle

#76. It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.

Hayden Panettiere

#77. How you react doesn't tell a person about your character, as much as it does your fear or God's fire. Which is it?

Shannon L. Alder

#78. Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.

Ana Ivanovic

#79. Audiences will admire your character's strength but connect with them through their weakness.

Don Roff

#80. Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash.
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Robin Glasser

#81. You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.

Johnny Galecki

#82. I'm happy when people come up and say how they feel about what your character went through, you know, I went through and it's helping me deal with it. I get to see the movie through the audience's eyes and that's really gratifying.

Kimberly Elise

#83. Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

S.I. Hayakawa

#84. I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

Jane Austen

#85. We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

Jacqueline Bisset

#86. Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

James Joyce

#87. When your circumstances fail but your character succeeds, you become a model of hope for others.

Patrick Morley

#88. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by who and for what?

Michael Josephson

#89. You must build your character before the age of 40 because there is a destiny you must discover at the age of 40.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#90. A lesson for you, Mr. Grim: Intending an action and doing it are far from the same thing. Until you are right there, with the choice in front of you, you can only guess what you might do, and what your character might be. Are you hero or coward? Often you will guess wrong.

Violet Haberdasher

#91. Your character is your best hand in this game called life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#92. I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

Katharine Isabelle

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

Spencer W. Kimball

#94. Your character is your destiny.

Eugene Sullivan

#95. I think the thing I took most from game playing was just getting in the characters head. I took it really seriously. There's something about creating your character.

Drew Goddard

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

Roger Ebert

#97. The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

Victoria Pratt

#98. Harrison Ford comes on set, and he's very polite and says, 'Hello' to everyone. He cares about everything that's going on, on set. He cares about what's going on with your character and what's in the scene and what's on the desk.

Liam Hemsworth

#99. When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#100. I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.

Matthew Davis