Character Quotes - Page 124

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Scent has become a way for me to differentiate characters.

The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

I can only show what I have received from the characters. That's what's scary because you're never going to be everyone's taste and you don't want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do.

I'm such a believer in going to set, even when you're not work because I think the best things to be learned, you don't necessarily get from your own scene or from someone speaking to you and telling you advice. I think it's all about watching and just taking it all in. It's not even when the cameras are rolling, necessarily. You can see how they interact with the rest of the crew, and how they deal with being a character and then being themselves.

Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life - that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion - or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative.

I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.