Quotes About Character

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

God is more interested in the workman than in the work.

Talent doesn't win. Hard work, determination, and character wins. If you root your talent and ability in those things, then you have a powerful combination.

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.