Quotes About Character

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

Coolidge's stat was so low; he's ranked in the bottom half of presidents. What I found when I encountered this man was the leader I might like to see today.

Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men

Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.

I like being able to be a man.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.