Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a ‘character’ than a model.

People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

You look at the part in ’12 Years A Slave,’ you finish that script – I mean, it’s a powerful story. You go, ‘Man, I have to play a bad character in this.’ And then...

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

There is no greater evil than men’s failure to consult and to consider.

Character is higher than intellect.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that’s the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

In 1996, Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a ‘prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction’ act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the...

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you’re playing.

…I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl — a cousin I think — having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four...

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Character is a stamp of good repute on a person.

It is never too late to show true character.

When I am preparing my ‘lookalike’ photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have...

A person who remains attached to his roots with his foot always on the ground grows like a green tree that bears the best fruit.

Selfishness even binds many people,but blindly without having any liking for one another.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.

You have to get it in your brain that you don’t belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

I don’t believe you can get into somebody’s character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things...

How he could be a good user of LSD,” I asked, “And know about the spiritual dimension – all that sort of thing – and still be a crook? I don’t understand.””Then it’s time you...

The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.

there was perhaps a strain of humility that was more common then than now, that there was a moral ecology, stretching back centuries but less prominent now, encouraging people to be more skeptical of their...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you...

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

I do love editorials – you’re free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

Für den neuen Herrn, der die Zügel des Betriebes in seine feste Hand genommen hatte, mußten doch ohne weiteres neue Unternehmungen eintreten, die Erfolge warteten auf ihn, die Ereignisse hatten sich seiner Persönlichkeit anzupassen!…

Country was about character. Country’s changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

I had an idea of what David Kelley wanted the character to do, … He really wanted this very sort of volatile force at this well-established firm on ‘The Practice’ … to stir things up.

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

Leadership is built on true character! You lose your leadership when you fake your character. The degree of leadership potential a person can expose will depend on how potent he can maintain his true character!

It’s all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn’t necessary to live a tragic life to create from...

I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations. I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since...

Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.

A person’s true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their very existence. For most, time gives clarity, but for others, these questions remained...

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

I am a tree, though I’m not a shady character. I’m like a tree in winter.

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...