Quotes About Character

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'English Traits' I came across a meteorological explanation of the Englishman's character. 'Born in a harsh and wet climate, which keeps him indoors whenever he is at rest,' he writes, 'domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high. The motive and end of their trade is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.'9 I wondered whether the English weather might really be the key.

Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.-Jerome K. Jerome

who weighs about twelve stone. 

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

Beneath every goober is a kid. A person. Maybe he's not what you would call 'regular.' But so what? Is that a bad thing?

I mean if she's real, she's in big trouble. How long do you think somebody who's really like that is going to last around here?

Someone who has come through heartache and maintains wit and charm is far more interesting than someone who has been kept on a pedestal all her life.

Mr. Gespenst was created by E.E. Kellett and appeared in "The Tables Turned" (Pearson's Magazine, January 1903). Ernest Edward Kellett (1864-1950) wrote widely on subjects from literature to music to religion. He also created Nameless Man (VI). "The Tables Turned" is an amusing comic ghost story.

Should a person wear the clothes of their enemy or the clothes of their hero?

I will never compromise on my poorly-thought-out, internally-inconsistent, quasi-irrational principles. That's just how I roll.

Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.

He was slightly plump, scholarly-looking but still youthful, with black thick-framed glasses and a sharp, prominent nose.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and made it a thing of beauty.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.