Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I’m playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That’s really what intrigued me as...

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

[Foley dedicated his book to his father and also included his father as a character in the book. He joked that when the lead character] Scooter … the picture of Foley’s chubby kid…well, that’s me.

It’s strange to look back over a full season. Our characters have accrued all these memories, but so have we, the actors. And sometimes the character memories and the actor memories bleed into each other.

We don’t have no say, ‘cause we was an afterthought. He yanked us up out o’ man’s ribs, but He made man out the Earth. He made him out the dirt and the mud and...

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill’s character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright...

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don’t want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it...

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands...

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn’t ever quit.

She’s a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

It’s an important day. It helps to evaluate a kid’s character, how he feels about us. We show them the facilities and talk about academics. It’s more to educate them on what we have to...

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

It looked awful, it had been stripped of all its character.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which...

The focus is on character, so if there’s something out there, it’s going to come to light pretty quickly. In this climate with all of the info and misinformation out there all you want to...

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

When people talk about a person’s legacy, they talk about personal qualities, about the character of a person. Lloyd had those. But he had an effect on people’s lives. The lives of a lot of...

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God’s eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

I’ve learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who’s short and looks more like a character actor – we both have the same drive to be actors and we both...

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.

I think it shows a tremendous amount of character. After getting humbled by a good team, to play with a sense of competition and fight your way back and not give in to adversity, it...

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

There’s always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as...

The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.

…you have to believe in its principles. Anything is possible, as long as it’s for the good of the world. Make the exception. Live exceptionally. And if you can’t do that, maybe we should consider...

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

I gained a lot of confidence after ‘IP Man’ as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of...

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

I know a lot of players on that team, so I know their character. They are going to talk trash and play dirty. That’s just the way they are.

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.