Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.

Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything – look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret...

To test a man’s character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.

It’s rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else’s work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you’re...

When the magnet does not attract the needle, the fault lies in the dirt that covers up the needle.

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The force of character is cumulative

I found my niche as a character actor, and I’ve never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Stay alert! Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior… They can say all the right things, they can make you feel things you’ve never felt before, but don’t be fooled; their actions will...

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untank-like as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns...

When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.

And what’s interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle—Gods.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

I have a bad reputation because I play evil from the outside but if you get closer I hide heaven inside me❤ ❤

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it’s the warrior who wields it.

The win was as much for the character of the team as the skills we’ve shown over the last three months.

A true comedian is really a good humanitarian, but a very rare few match up to that high standard.

A person who has got truly his own hands in bagging the position where he stands in his career and society only gets the good friends in his life.

The consideration of the quantity often takes the precedence over that of the quality in many significant activity of the society as the ordinary minds are in the great majority and the extraordinary brains are...

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it’s up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

It’s a strange feeling. Everywhere I go, I’m the first. Step outside the rover? First guy ever to be there! Climb a hill? First guy to climb that hill! Kick a rock? That rock hadn’t...

I am more impressed by the size of a person’s character than the size of their purse.

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that’s embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation – and you find that character across cultures.

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga’s entire character.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

I’ve been on ‘Criminal Minds’ twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my...

It’s very humbling. As you’re sitting there, watching, and the character does some wonderful thing, you think, ‘Oh that was good.’ But it wasn’t me. It was them. They did that. It is definitely being...

I’m not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one...

it’s through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It’s also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and...

I am more spontaneous than my character.

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence...

What a character eats is a detail – like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all...

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you’ve done and can add to your character – I’m willing to try.

The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent concessions...

Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to… She was...

Like at Halloween: I knew I’d arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

We’re getting better looks at the basket, but we still played out of character. We missed free throw shots, we made turnovers and they outplayed us. That’s how you lose games.

People like you are the reason this album needed to be written in the first place. When you’ve got your salary, and your cosy little ivory tower, you’re dead happy to spout off about artistic...

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone’s got their own character, and that’s the thing that’s amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone’s approach to what can...

I’m not a singer. I’ve sung in character, but it’s just not my thing.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

It’s not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.