Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

I’m unpredictable, I never know where I’m going until I get there, I’m so random, I’m always growing, learning, changing, I’m never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about...

I’m not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I’m not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I...

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.

Tony is a very strange character. He is one of the most generous and most selfish men I have met. I think he is capable of doing it. I helped him a few times last...

I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

This speaks to the character of these guys. It’s something. I can’t explain it. This is just an unbelievable group of guys. You don’t win as many games as they have without being different. And...

I’m trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I’m not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers....

You can’t be funny for funny’s sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really...

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven; just one more minute would do it.

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends – there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless – be unhappy – and die a...

What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize I’m describing myself. Am I the ideal leader? Let’s just say that if...

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....

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures – character.

This builds character for a team, … I’m just happy it happened earlier in the season. Hopefully, this will make us better.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and...

I wouldn’t say that I’m very similar to the character of Nathan at all. Both of us have had very different upbringings and backgrounds. I have a competitive nature like the character of Nathan. That’s...

It’s grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I’m crazy about Jerry. I think he’s a unique character.

There’s never any telling what you’ll say or do next, except that it’s bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

I start with a character and a situation, but I don’t know what’s going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

You do me proud, Captain. But, dear, I want to say one thing and then I’m done; for you don’t need much advice of mine after my good man has spoken. I read somewhere that...

[But how similar does she believe the Peter Mullan character also called Michael Scot is to the real figure?] Well, the Shoebox Zoo character really thinks he is ‘nae small drink’ and that he knows...

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don’t shy away from it. Why should I?

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I’m good to go.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he’s worthy to be called a friend.

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

Most of the time, when I’m writing, I’m writing for myself. I’m thinking, ‘What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?’ I create individuals so real to me,...

What people say about you, good or bad, is not nearly as important as what you are.

I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

You see, Marcus, some things have value yet have no price, and a wise man learns them and their worth. So do not let the standard of the marketplace be your guide. A man goes...

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I’m writing.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Like Louis, Dan is in a difficult spot, … but he has the character, as Louis does, to handle the situation he is in right now.

I’ve said that I would play anything to do with ‘Star Wars.’ But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul – that’s what I want to do. I would go...

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of a man’s personality, and bears the...

Put character and mental toughness before execution and you will get consistent execution.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.

I feel really proud of my work on ‘Sullivan & Son.’ It’s a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that’s who I am...

Some women don’t care what you can do for them. They care about what you could make of them in the inside.

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever...