Quotes About Character

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

Few great men could pass personnel.

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

I want people to say, 'She is really sweet and kind.' Anyone can work hard enough and be 'pretty.' Not many people are nice nowadays.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

When you work for the Coens, they are so fun and so organized. They treat everyone with such respect. And the character I got to play was so fun.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.

Of course, when you work on a character, you try to understand her. You feel that everything she does has a reason.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.