Quotes About Character

Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.

After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

Historically all of the greats, Stone Cold Steve Austin, that's Steve with the volume turned way up to his personality, Dwayne Johnson is The Rock, he just turns his volume on his personality way up.

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Standup is essentially part of your personality with the volume turned up.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

There's not one person at any club I've been at who would turn around and say I'm a bad egg, it's only been at Aston Villa. That speaks volumes.

Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with the requirements of the time. And he was a ruined President, because he was such a, I think, stiff-backed ideologue. And I think that speaks volumes about his character.

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Nobody voted for me on account of my origins. People voted for me because of what I am and what I stand for.

When I came up with the Alexa Bliss character, I wanted to be the girl that everyone knew. There was always that girl in high school who was mean to everybody. She was mean and rude, but everyone still voted for her to be homecoming queen. That girl. And I wanted to portray that girl.

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics, character and background. (We are talking about a man, after all, who won the Nobel Peace Prize while ordering the automated killing of suspected Muslim terrorists around the world).

In Gov. Huckabee's case, consistency is seen as principle... and that's incredibly valuable to voters.

I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.