Quotes About Character

Yeah, this good-guy bullshit wasn't his gig at all.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Over the ten years since she'd been born, the trees of Briary Swamp, West Virginia, had peered through May's window night after night. They had watched over her thoughtful brown eyes, the imaginative crook of her head, the strong character of her knobby knees. The trees had laughed at the jokes May told her cat. Their leaves had whispered over her wild inventions, her colorful stories, her drawings.

You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.

Wound make you deeper and bigger. The bigger the challenges you face, the bigger and deeper your soul gets.

When teenagers lie, it's often for the same reasons that adults do: to impress people, to advance themselves (academically, financially, or in some other way), to protect their friends, and — like Cain — to get out of trouble. While these reasons may make a lie understandable, they should never make lying acceptable . God doesn't wink at deception.

Something occurs to me. "Have you ever tried writing something from Astrid's point of view?

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

As for being a good man,' and Glokta curled his lip, 'that ship sailed long ago, and I wasn't even there to wave it off.

The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest.

Different men have different ways, Logen had told him once, and you have to have fear to have courage.

Winning teaches you nothing," said Tunny. "You see what a man really is when he loses.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

You get what you give, in the long run, and manners cost nothing.

She was not a woman to be deterred by hatred: not from her workers, not from her rivals, not from the men she bullied, bribed or blackmailed to get her way. It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

Her father told her she was pretty, but all fathers said that. Grandma Howard told her pretty on the outside didn't particularly matter. Pretty on the inside is what mattered to the good Lord.

I've often wondered, even to this day, why during painful times some people seem to step away from themselves and make decisions that fall far out of their usual line of character and behaviour. Perhaps a natural reluctance to sit still is central, or perhaps, like the lesser animals, instinct forces us to go on even if grief has left us not up to the task…. In one fleeting moment, I stripped away the petals of my future, let them catch wind, and fly away

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.