Quotes About Character

The only thing he said was that among human vices he considered cowardice one of the first.

The only thing he said was that among human vices he considered cowardice one of the first.'7

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what she is for me. I love her as character in our common love story. what wuld Hamlet be without the castle at Elsinore, without Ophelia, without all the concrete situations he goes through, what would he be without the text of his part? What would be left but an empty, dumb, illusory essence?

In this country people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure. Believe me, it is the mornings that determine a man's character.

A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists draw up the map of existence by discovering this or that human possibilit. But again, to exist mean: 'being-in-the-world.' Thus both the character and his world must be understood as possibilities.

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.

Svijetla kosa i tamna kosa, to su dva pola ljudskog karaktera. Tamna kosa zna?i muževnost, odvažnost, otvorenost i poduzetnost, dok je svijetla kosa simbol ženstvenosti, nježnosti, bespomo?nosti i pasivnosti. Plavuša je, prema tome, dvostruka žena. Princeza mora biti plavokosa. Zato žene, da bi bile ženstvenije, boje kosu u žuto, a nikad u crno.

What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?

Quello che l'attirava verso lo specchio non era la vanità bensì la meraviglia di vedere il proprio io. Dimenticava che stava guardando il quadro di comando dei meccanismi del corpo. Credeva di vedere la sua anima che le si rivelava nei tratti del suo viso. Dimenticava che il naso non è che l'estremità di un tubo che porta aria ai polmoni. In esso vedeva l'espressione fedele del proprio carattere.

Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.

Being a dramatic character was more difficult for me. It was a new thing that I explored because it was challenging. But I love to challenge myself and different things.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

I would love to play more nerd roles, as well as action hero roles.

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.