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Quotes About Character

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
~ Jesus Christ
It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.
~ Goldie Hawn
I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
~ Christopher Lee
There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'
~ Emmy Rossum
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
~ Joel Coen
I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.
~ Ann Leckie
The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'
~ Guy Pearce
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
~ Bob Dylan
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
~ Samuel Johnson
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
~ Nathan Fillion
Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.
~ Adnan Sami
I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
~ Gina Carano
I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
~ Zac Goldsmith
I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.
~ Sharlto Copley
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in college should be dismissed. Titles don't matter. GPAs don't matter, nor does what school you go to.
~ Mickey Drexler
John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.
~ Laurence Fishburne
I stay in character at all times regardless of whoever's playing well, the team isn't playing well. if we're up or down, I'm going to stay in character.
~ Malcolm Brogdon
I think you have to experience life and then pull certain experiences into your act and your character's life, whoever you play, so you're full.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
Whoever you are, you have to be that. You know? I was always who I was. I never changed, I never switched.
~ Scarface