Quotes About Character

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Reformed rakes often make the best husbands

I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

Hire character. Train skill.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It's not a good idea to do that.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

Being a good human being is good business.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.