I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on ‘Episodes.’ He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he’s such a huge gay person.

There is a requirement of money in everyone’s life to fulfill own basic needs and do good deeds for others, but a person becomes its slave indeed only on sowing the seed of the selfishness...

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Courage is the collective strength of heart, mind and soul, but the character plays the key role.

Character isn’t all about becoming a saint or perfect. No one is perfect! There are areas we all are working on to improve and fine tune..

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist’s voice without making it sound as though I was ‘dumbing down’ to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with...

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that’s scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather’s always bad)...

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all.

In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

I shall miss all the people in it and the great fun we had doing it. I enjoyed playing the character very much. It was a very, very special character and a very special series....

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Would you have references?””I’m awfully sorry but I haven’t. I just arrived in New York, and don’t know a soul. Except you.” I smiled but she didn’t smile back. She stood hesitating, and I said,...

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away....

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.

I started doing some acoustic things. When my character was out at sea on a tanker, running his fleet, he’d just noodle around on his guitar. So I did an Eric Clapton song, and then...

It showed a lot of character. Getting in late after an emotional win, we could have just made it respectable but we did our job and wanted to win and that showed.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine...

I think he’s going to be a fantastic new character.

I believe the most intricate plot won’t matter much to readers if they don’t care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or...

When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself.

Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

One word to describe the guys on this team would be character,

A lot of actors are like, ‘Why do I do this? My character wouldn’t do this? This doesn’t make sense.’ And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character.

If you don’t demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

You don’t have to be beautiful to be shallow. You needn’t be small or weak to be a coward. Shitty personalities come in surprising packages and anybody can be an asshole. So value the good...

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

To be honest, when you’re running a series and you have an open end, you don’t want to limit yourself too much with the choices you’ve got for a particular character.

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

The Christian Journey is not just to a place “Heaven”, it is also to a person “Jesus”. Ephesians 4:13 says “Till we all come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

We’re looking at a very small group of men and women, particularly focusing on one character. There are a couple of ships, including a principal ship, but this is not a traditional captain and crew...

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

It’s one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on...

Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too....

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there’s a place for him on Halloween.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough;...

Character is that which can do without success.

Our imperfections make us unique as surely as our strengths.

One doesn’t simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave – arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite...

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and...