But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I’ve always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

To me, it’s the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don’t like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like...

The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

You’re stubborn, Vlad. Is that a compliment?

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

That’s what we spoke about in the locker room, character in an NBA game. It’s more crucial to play hard in the last minute than the first 39. Anything can happen in the final minute...

I thought the character was superb and in the end we looked like scoring from every play,

A person is only as fair to oneself as the people often hanging around him or her, here and there, truly care towards ones who are not personally or professionally related to them anywhere.

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.

Failure people deal with life’s disappointment whereas the real people ride on disappointment to take the best lesson out of it to understand the character of persons they had in their network then. Dealing is...

The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought from outside is likely to decide the quality of the people that has been brought into his life.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

You’ll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn’t rolling.

When you carry someone else’s baggage, it’s nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

We learned to appreciate the character of that golf course and the great history it had had. It was always the highlight of the summer. If you could have a major championship as a kid,...

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet...

If you can jump up onstage and make people laugh, shouldn’t you also be able to inhabit a character?

In these times of Darkness, I keep dreaming of a better tomorrow, and praying my soul won’t be corrupted.” These are Gudrun’s words and thoughts. She is living in a troubled world, where only the...

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

There’s not one kid in that locker room that doesn’t lack for character. I’m extremely proud of the way they played.

One thing I’ve learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don’t like anyone telling me how I’m supposed to feel or think or what...

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

That people can be threatened by a fictional character speaks volumes about them.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is something else.

The fact that God can bring character development and personal growth out of any situation is conditional on people’s willingness to submit to God’s will. God is sovereign over every life, but those who yield...

Character is destiny.

I run through all the positive character qualities in my mind, and assign myself a number from 1-10 on where I think I am on each. Surprisingly I score tens on each one until the...

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

The Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving. Be aware!!

I think if I weren’t so beautiful, maybe, I’d have more character.

Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.

It’s curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn’t it?

What if God doesn’t keep his promises?

Anyone I’m with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who is very understanding.

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.

To live with integrity, it is important to know what’s right and what’s wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple:...

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

I used to audition for ‘NYPD Blue’ quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.

This would have been so far out of character.

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.