Quotes About Character

Some people were arrogant jerks when they made $50,000 and some are arrogant jerks making $25 million. People are people, but 95 percent of NFL players are great guys.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

I've always been of the mindset that you will be defined by the things you say 'no' to because it's so easy to say 'yes.'

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

I approach my interviews with the mindset of, exactly what are we selling? How can I sell it the hardest and the most effectively in the fewest words possible? And how can I make each word that I say mean as much as it possibly can? And I bring that perspective to the table because I used to focus a lot on the character that I had to play.

I'm always going to be known for Mini Me, and it's fine.

I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part of the self.

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

Dac? Å£inem doar la oamenii de înalt caracter,în cel mai scurt timp se face pustiu în jurul nostru.Trebuie s?-i frecvent?m ÅŸi pe cei aÅŸa-ziÅŸi f?r? caracter,ca s? rezist?m,ca s? nu pierim spiritual.Oamenii aÅŸa zicând de caracter sunt cei care,cu vremea doar ne plicitisesc ÅŸi ne omoar?.

He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.

characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be

And we feel that those characters couldn't be anywhere but where they are, that those characters couldn't say the things they say if they were uprooted and planted in, say, Minnesota or Scotland.

There is, in fact, no form of dysfunctional family or no personal disintegration of character for which there is not a Greek or Roman model.

God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God. (p. 98)

People rate themselves more favorably on amorphous traits like sensitivity and idealism (at the 73rd percentile, on average) than on relatively straightforward traits like thriftiness and being well-read (48th percentile).

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits.