Quotes About Character

One of my favorite movies is Bette Davis in 'All About Eve,' and it is shocking there was no pressure on her to be likable.

I have absolutely no problem on doing a negative character. If that matches up to my acting caliber, I will definitely do that.

las acciones —no los pensamientos ni las intenciones— eran la verdadera forma de juzgar a los demás

People Should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

If Jamie had taught me anything over these last few months, she'd shown me that actions—not thoughts or intentions—were the way to judge others.

You're going to come across people in your life who say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand.

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

You know that bad people can make great art, don't you?'Said Annie. 'Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I admire the most are assholes.' 'Dickens wasn't nice to his wife.' 'Dickens didn't make a memoir called I'm Nice to My Wife.

A veces hemos de ser juzgados por nuestros actos únicos.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and

already a national institution: a cartoon cad

Top five things I miss about Laura...Two: she's got character...she's loyal and honest, and she doesn't even take it out on people when she's having a bad day. That's character.

It's not reading and whatever that makes you good or bad. It's whether you rape people, or get addicted to crack and go out mugging.

Being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way

If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.

Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story work in harmony and true proportion, is fucking *hard*. --Nicola Griffith, www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030929...

I see someone who's really good at saying the right things, but when push comes to shove, doesn't mean a thing he says.

As I gazed at Mao's face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered how one single person could have caused the extent of misery that was prevailing in China. There must be something lacking in our own character, I thought, that had made it possible for his evil genius to dominate.

Whether the individual fights this battle in ways such that men call him good or such that they call him evil is determined by the measure and makeup of his intellect.

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