Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

We’re working up hill. We’re proud of the way they played, their character, their intensity. They left everything out on the field, it was a very physical game. And I was proud of that part...

Wills aren’t really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may...

?’Will and Grace’ and ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ have softened us up with regards to the funny gay character. ?’Well, all right, he’s gay, but they’re so funny, those gays.’ And I thought, that doesn’t...

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can’t make it good or magical. I couldn’t even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while… But now I’ve reached a point...

[…] należała jednak do tych kobiet, które łączą w sobie zdrową urodę z histeryczną łzawliwością, wybuchy liryczne z bardzo praktycznym, banalnym myśleniem, podły charakter z sentymentalizmem, ospałą bierność z trzeźwą umiejętnością wysyłania bliźnich na poszukiwanie...

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved...

Speak less and listen more.

It’s very out of character for him. We’re all very, very worried and we want to see him come home … He and I are supposed to be in Florida for spring break right now.

All of these people had character. None of them thought they were special people, born with the right to win. They were people who worked hard, who learned how to keep their focus under pressure,...

That’s something the defense can hang their hat on. We’re trying to establish our character and our identity. This was a great game, especially for our defense.

Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.

It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.

There are broadly two kinds of people who worry and fear a lot. One who has built the desire more than his need and another who has got more than what he deserves. And both...

A movie that gets closer to the life’s reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.

Dear,it’s quite clear that people listen only that what they want to hear and especially that which does not create fear of losing their personal interest in the talk, and the rest even if the...

On ‘Glee,’ we often tackle the tough topics that young people face – in fact, my recurring character, Wade ‘Unique’ Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems...

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I’m from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

(When thinking about the Ruth character) I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There’s not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they’d squeal and thrash around. They’d...

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he’s doing very little wrong.

I am a worried person with a stressed out soul, living a simple life with no capital.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without...

Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It’s character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!

The Doctor’ is the kind of character – because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the ‘Doctor’- when you’re there, you’re in it a...

I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would’ve previous to that. I was so innocent...

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became ‘Timothy Green.’

But I learned that there’s a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there’s not much else that can really get to ya.

Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and hardened his constitution, but they have given stability to his character. He is thoughtful and prudent,...

We face a hostile ideology (communism): global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method

The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that...

I thought that Gov. Bush’s attack on Al Gore, his character and credibility, was very unfair and not what the campaign should be about. In moments of desperation, Gov. Bush turned back to attack President...

I was terrified of taking on such a well-known character – to the point where I didn’t want to do it. But my agent persuaded me and I’m very glad she did.

Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.

The tenacious character I’ve possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

I’m just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime’s been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you’ve got to make the story interesting besides it...

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Home is our greatest place of trials.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

I’d got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both...

Take good care of your final word. If your final say will hunt you in day’s ahead, then hold back the words, and let silence speak.

Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man...

We’ve just got to build more character as a team if we want that No. 1 spot.