Character Quotes - page 7

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. (Benjamin Disraeli)
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. View quote
Phillips Brooks
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. View quote
Jerome
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. View quote
Anne Enright
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. View quote
Manuel Puig
All of the character traits, which are in such great need of correction and cultivation-who will cultivate and correct them if we do not give heart to them and subject them to exacting scrutiny? View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. View quote
Rachel Kushner
The darker the character, the more interesting. View quote
Robert Carlyle
Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home. (Fran Drescher)
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. View quote
Charles Cooley
I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion. View quote
David Benioff
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. View quote
James Hillman
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter. View quote
Julie Garwood
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. View quote
Elie Ducommun
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. View quote
Elie Ducommun
In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits. View quote
Alfred Binet
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. (Christopher Lasch)
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya. View quote
Christian Bale
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. View quote
Loretta Young
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives. View quote
Michael Gruber