Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy...

I’m excited, I think we showed some character tonight and I’m excited to see this team play their first semifinal game.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit...

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it’s boring. I think that’s what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive...

When someone says “I Love You,” it is imperative that you know if you are loved for “WHAT you are” or “WHO you are.” When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank...

To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character...

In recalling my childhood I like to picture myself as a beehive to which various simple obscure people brought the honey of their knowledge and thoughts on life, generously enriching my character with their own...

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.”(Young India, 22 October 1925)

Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don’t look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to...

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The highest qualities of character… must be earned.

…I didn’t want you flawless – I have a bare wall at home that’s flawless – I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin…

No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities...

The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

What are we if we are not disciplined?

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I’m in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that,...

With all due disrespect…

A characterless man is like a pot with many holes, useless for carrying water or for storing it. Renounce and win Peace.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and...

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough...

Like De Niro. He’s one of the best character actors we have ever had.

There’s no need to tell me who you are; you’re already showing me.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he’s unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

Everyone’s disappointed that they just don’t get to be around him every day. His credentials and his character are very unique. He was fun to be around.

They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be...

Be a Person. Not a Resumé.

Character makes all the differnce

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The witness of solid moral character to a righteous way of life must never be underestimated.

Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy...

A person who can look inside into his soul sees then with his vision one and all standing outside around in support to him that they are only as truthful and trustworthy to him as...

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

There’s nothing like beauty of heart as it makes everything look beautiful.

Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I’m working with is the third part of it – and any...

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I’d like to incorporate that into a character.

Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

It is the ‘Teacher’, that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.

End of Construction. Thank you ‘for your patience. ” Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham’s grave — inspired hy a road sign she saw.

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

Anything that’s different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it’s driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards...

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better to be respected.

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our...