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...

I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands...

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him

He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn’t ever quit.

She’s a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

It’s an important day. It helps to evaluate a kid’s character, how he feels about us. We show them the facilities and talk about academics. It’s more to educate them on what we have to...

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don’t feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

None of the shades of blue can paint the character of few men.

It looked awful, it had been stripped of all its character.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which...

The focus is on character, so if there’s something out there, it’s going to come to light pretty quickly. In this climate with all of the info and misinformation out there all you want to...

Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

Character is not made by crisis. It is only exhibited.

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things – like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

Offers come all the time, but I’m pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I’m...

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up...

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who’s short and looks more like a character actor – we both have the same drive to be actors and we both...

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.

I think it shows a tremendous amount of character. After getting humbled by a good team, to play with a sense of competition and fight your way back and not give in to adversity, it...

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

There’s always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as...

The good part about this is you get to see what type of character you have as a team.