Character Quotes - Page 180

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to have been there during much of the action David Sepkoski describes, I give his description and analysis of the history of paleobiology a five-star rating; to my mind, this actually was the way it was.

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

Yuki: What could I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn't even know that Jason isn't really a bear! He's a character in a horror film! Kyo: So what if I didn't know? Like I'd waste my time watching some dumb movie about a bear! Yuki: You truly are an idiot...

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

Working on Drive, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on Firefly of course. He called me up and said I've got a part for you that you will love and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

Character is victory organized.