I played a lot of character parts in school.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I’m a bit quirkier than that.

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or...

I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I’ve always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone...

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

I’ve discovered that in life, it doesn’t matter how good of a person you are; it’s human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

We are all wounded. It is in the care of our wounds that we choose to develop character, or scars.

I thought we were out of character on offense. Calvin did a great job of disrupting our rhythm and we didn’t have a good flow.

Character is formed out of those small decisions taken for granted

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only...

He who says that someone isn’t himself is a victim of statistics.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.What other surprises...

The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.

Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with adversity, for...

It’s true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that’s pretty clear, because if you don’t conventionally look a certain way and you’ve got a certain kind of presence when you’re young,...

Washington’s character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

Count your years and you’ll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the same things as you wanted when you were a boy. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day...

Only men of character are trusted.

Once you’ve established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

A leader is not authenticated by title or position, but by character and influence, most important by leading among the pack and not in front.

Do you always do as you would like to do were it in your power? I find that circumstances force me often to act in a manner quite opposite to what I should prefer; I...

Some actors – myself included – like to know where your character’s going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you’re going to give beats...

Character is contagious.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can’t get involved in things that will damage your character.

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

One’s character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can’t swim back.

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it … but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a...

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made — so faithful is the public.

He was an extraordinary man of impeccable character, integrity, honesty, compassion and fairness. He had all the attributes you want in a human being. He was a friend of mine for 45 years. He was...

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever...

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....