Quotes About Character

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

Hillary Clinton wants to be president, but she doesn't have the temperament or - as Bernie Sanders said very strongly - the judgment to be president. She does not have the judgment.

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

I don't really go back over my old shows, but I'll see them occasionally, mostly I want to go back and change things about the character as I look at them.

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.

The world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.

Think what you like about yourself, but we will continue seeing you as you are - a noble man." "Noble -" "Not that kind of noble, Ganoes. This is the kind that's earned, the only kind that means anything. Because, in this day and age, it's damned rare.

Arrogance. A vice of being undead, Toc the Younger.

The fleet of ships came later, under the command of three madmen – Crust, Urko and Nok – but first to step ashore was none other than Surly and you know who she'd become, don't you?

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony.

how much a person's identity depends on what role he is playing.

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.

To be like Christ requires us to be full of joy and gladness.

None of us can ever humble ourselves too much.