Character Quotes - page 8

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Sam Ewing)
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. View quote
Suzanne Vega
When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. View quote
Bo Bennett
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children. View quote
Billy Graham
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. View quote
Oliver Lodge
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it. View quote
Peter Mayhew
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. View quote
Amy Sedaris
Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character. View quote
O. J. Simpson
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. View quote
Edward Thorndike
I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow. (Oded Fehr)
It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first. View quote
Charlton Heston
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. View quote
Esther Williams
We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people. View quote
Andrew Shue
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. View quote
Ann Beattie
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. View quote
Beth Henley
I'm really excited to be a part of it and sharing the legacy, any documentary I look up at the sky and Kevin Burns did and Bryan did and showed me again you know the history that's in this character and you know. View quote
Brandon Routh
I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice. View quote
Brion James
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. View quote
Bruce McCulloch
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit. View quote
Christopher Meloni
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character. (Corin Nemec)
But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. View quote
Dabney Coleman
No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do. View quote
Dabney Coleman
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. View quote
David Antin
To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage. View quote
Damon Hill