Sometimes the words against a big selfish person 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...

A person who has gone through enough life’s grind can probably and justifiably find the true worth of anything or anyone in his or everyone’s life.

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others’ lives.

The character of someone shouldn’t be measured based on what they eat, drink or the way they dress. Character that commands following is more than demonstrating some ‘nice’, ‘cute’, ‘appealing’ behaviors. It is deeper than...

I’m really shy with my acting when it’s off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

Character witnesses are for when you’re guilty and are looking for lenient sentencing.

I don’t know… I think I’m quite extreme… When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character… otherwise I can’t act… In my private life it’s the same… I think.

‘Deep Red’ (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset....

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

I don’t like to come at my character from some really technical place.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

I’m a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don’t look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

T.V. is the place to do the kind of films that were done in the 40s and 50s: the little guy against the system. There are so many opportunities in T.V. to do more character...

To be trusted is to be entrusted.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like.

It’s never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you’re the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop...

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Call me a Freak all u want really…I honestly take it as a compliment everytime. No matter how it was intended.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel....

It showed a lot a character, again. You look at getting in late after an emotional win. You felt, ‘Hey, we can keep it close, make it respectable, then we did our job.’ But we...

The way you handle your problems shows your character.

Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren’t quite...

We are what we are because of what we’ve been

I do love that witches haven’t really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character… a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in...

Character is doing what you don’t want to do but know you should do.

These kids always fight back, they have resiliency, and that’s a sign of their character.

Generally women are better than men — they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with...

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

It was a South finish to come back the way we did. This team has a lot of character.

Judge character by behavior.

He’s a character. But when he gets on the field, he turns into a man. This guy is a beast. I love being around him. He talks trash, but that’s all right because he can...

The detected violations were of procedural character and do not influence the election results.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel – that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their...

The term ‘fraud’ as listed in the documentation is simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny’s character.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small acts combines to shape a final work of art. And so it is...

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.