Quotes About Character

required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

You are who you choose to be.

Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.

Whether you're talking about a person or a country, it's okay to be rich and it's okay to be powerful, just as long as you're humble and cooperative. But if you combine being rich and powerful with being arrogant and uncooperative, people won't cut you much slack,

The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.

Well, I've never been a morning person either." Perhaps that is true. But the question is this: Has that habit of personality been a blessing or a curse to you?

Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart.

Behavior is a manifestation of what is going on inside. What a person says or does mirrors the heart. "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks" (Luke 6:45).

Teach your children that ungodly behavior begins with ungodly attitudes of heart, but godly behavior begins with godly attitudes of heart. Below

All behavior is linked to attitudes of the heart. Therefore, discipline must address attitudes of the heart. This

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs 15:32).

He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding" (Proverbs

All behavior is linked to attitudes of the heart. Therefore, discipline must address attitudes of the heart.

Do not go up and come down. A tree grows high from roots deeply embedded beneath the surface of the earth, it does not grow downwards from the sky. Likewise character develops by noting and correcting the smallest flaws in the grind of a laborious struggle. The outcome of that is its future strength.

My father... had told me: Appearance is a distraction, surrendering it develops humility and truth in abundance.

'Friday Night Lights' was kind of like my college years because I did four seasons of that. It was my first series. It was the most time I had with one character, and kind of growing and evolving with the character over that long of a span of time, it just allows you to sort of learn in a completely different way that I had never experienced.

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Every footballer has their own identity. A Uruguayan player is different to a Spanish player. A Portuguese player may be similar to a Spanish one, but not the same - and so on.

Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play.

I'm such a believer in 'if you're beautiful on the inside it really shows on the outside.' I know a lot of people who are physically very beautiful, but their inside doesn't represent that. So to me, it just doesn't come across as having a sparkle to them or an energy that just radiates.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good.

I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinion, his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow is one of greatest performances given by an actor. I love his creative sense and the way he creates a character, so it would be a dream come true to work with him.

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.