I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from – what he means by this...

A boy with his girlfriend or a husband with his wife can be happy forever in their locked relationship only if he loves her as much as she loves solely to herself always and this...

Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive...

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don’t have.

The degree to which a person reflects or relates himself with his cherished guru in life measures the proportion of the personality traits, attributes and behavioral similarities that summarily exist between them on good and...

The few people who earned my respect are those who are predictable in their character but totally unpredictable the way they think!

Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and...

I really love pouring myself into a character for several months and leaving her, … Pouring myself into someone for a long time is very intimidating to me,

If you give people a chance, they shine.

God’s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist’s search for truth.

It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just...

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

As an actor I’m part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There’s always the little guy who’s the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets...

As good surgical doctor works on a patient in the theater with varied kinds of surgical instruments, so a true leader also needs a clean bag of leadership characters that vary from task to task....

You can tell a lot about a person’s character by how they do life’s menial tasks. For example, I saw my neighbor washing dishes, and I could immediately tell that he was an adulterer by...

I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers;...

Association with other people corrupts our character; especially when we have none.

Smoking is just a prop or wardrobe that helps identify a character as a bad guy. They have to do whatever they can to make the audience feel that this is a despicable person who...

I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on...

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are...

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

I’m not named after the character,’ she said. ‘I’m named after the entire opera.

Vision and purpose fix our character.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Haskins was a complex character. He was charismatic but he also had rage. I think he’s more complex and difficult than Bobby Knight.

Have you got any soul?” a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I’ve got loads,...

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears...

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn’t either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that’s blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows...

It shows the character of our club. We kept battling until the last out.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

‘Dallas’ hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all...

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person’s character.

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Things to remember: 1) The worth of character; 2) The improvement of talent; 3) The influence of example; 4) The joy of origination; 5) The dignity of simplicity; 6) The success of perseverance.

Little Nate just got caught up with some friends in college. That wasn’t his character.

The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable character―a life worth dying for.The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly...

There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man’s reputation and a man’s character, for reputation is what men...

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It’s all part of the same person but it’s a much newer medium for me.

A virtuous character is the lamp which illumines the path to peace and joy.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

The world put’s too much emphasis on what a person does in terms of monetary value and social status as opposed to who they are. If I was to ask you if you would be...

If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god; and there is a Greek verse which runs, “The Gods...