Quotes About Character

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet, guys, because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close . . . but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.

There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

Am I now going to mimic that person's bad attitude and make the situation worse, or am I going to be the person I want to be?

He stresses the wisdom of complaining, of expressing rather than storing negative feelings. These feelings belong to you, not the other person. Expressing them is a proper way of handling them. But criticizing, on the other hand, constitutes a direct attack on your partner's character.

people conducting themselves as the person God wants them to be in spite of the people, situations and circumstances that surround them.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

We come to feel as we behave.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

We are, all of us, always being tested

Whoever bids other folks to do right, but gives an evil example by acting the opposite way, is like a foolish weaver who weaves quickly with one hand and unravels the cloth just as quickly with the other. — St. Thomas More

How does Forrest Gump have sex? What could be more of a revelation about a character than watching them have sex? That says a lot about them, how they touch another person in bed.

Man creates what he is.

God is more concerned about our character than our comfort. HIs goal is not to pamper us physically, but to perfect us spiritually.

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Early people are anxious, on-time people are obsessive compulsive, and late people are hostile, or passively-aggressively hostile.

There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

Or that Isaac Porter bit his nails like a man playing a mouth organ?

Monsters don't just happen. We make them, day by day, choice by choice.