Character Quotes - Page 93

The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

I'm always trying to change things - change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my costumes, or implement different jackets or catchphrases. I try to keep myself fresh.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.

Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

Choices determine character.

A jester, a bad character.

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.