Quotes About Character

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

We really should stop taking historical novelists seriously as historians. The idea that they have authority is ludicrous. They are very good at imagining character: that's why the novels sell. They have no authority when it comes to the handling of historical sources. Full stop.

I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.

I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in any way been Southern in character.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.

It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.

I haven't done great things for Spain - I can't lie - but when I play well, they should say so. They criticise me for my character, but I also have quality.

I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.

Accepting others through kindness and love defines a person's true character.

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

When boys unite hearts they become gentlemen.

No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.