Quotes About Character

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

Not every great man is a grand human being.

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

All great virtues become great men. [Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Don't become me. Don't let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn't. Be a man.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.