Quotes About Character

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

It's not what we do once in a while that counts, but our habitual actions. What ultimately determines who we become and where we go in life are our decisions. These decisions shape our destiny.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.