To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from...

That way, we built this more interesting character.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Never permit circumstances to change your plans, but give so much character to your plans that they will change circumstances. Give so much character to the current of your work that all things will be...

There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.””And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.””And yours,” he replied...

You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man”.

They sort of thought of my character as being a bit of a loose cannon, so I think Martha Mitchell (the wife of Attorney General John Mitchell in the Nixon administration) probably came to mind....

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Winnie the Pooh is one of Disney’s premiere character franchises that remain as relevant to parents and kids today as it did 80 years ago.

I’m drawn to the romantic aspect of a character. It’s human emotion. It’s much more fun to watch. And it’s much more fun to play.

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I’d have to change my last or first name. I...

A man’s integrity isn’t found in what he does for others, but how he feels about it after it’s done.

My first audition happened to be for ‘Kindergarten Cop,’ and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking...

I tried to put myself in the character and within three minutes described how frustrating it is to watch a woman, like, systematically erase you from her mind. Like, if that were to happen, how...

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we’re really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting...

Forget happiness. You were called to a throne. How will you prepare for it? That is the question of virtue, Christian style.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

I don’t know if I’ve ever played a character who’s close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the...

I do believe at the end of the night when you’re with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

Weak or strong, everyone falls at least a thousand times throughout their life. It is in what they learn from their fall and how steady they become that you recognize the strongest of all.” -Grandma...

It shows you the character in that locker room. We set the tone early.

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked working for others and they seemed to resent taking orders. On...

Buffett’s uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and...

Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who’s involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

Education should build character.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I...

Character is what we do when no one else is watching”~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I could have concentrated on George Clooney’s character, … I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a...

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you’re playing.

Honesty defines self respect.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don’t like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

A lot of people who read my novel ‘Smog City’ ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it’s because I’ve given them life. Not literally of...

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat....

I watched a film called ‘Elephant’ recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity; for in truth the lickspittle is...

They (Calgary) come out every night and bring it. If we come with that character every night we will have a chance to win every night.

Some preach when opportunity knocks open the door, others teach when opportunity does not knock build the door, but why can’t we reach out to our heart with our open mind door to build faith...

A person only likes his friend to the degree he relates and connects to his character.

People don’t treat a person actually wise by his capacity to give all suggestions good and nice, but by his capability to offer solutions to lies to make world better in the best interest of...

There is no waste of time, just a person’s haste to show his taste at the test of the time.