Quotes About Character

I think there's a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the common denominator with the ones you remember is that they all have some really complicated emotional problem at their core.

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.

I think a lot of podcasts have a lot of amazing character work. Seth Morris does this amazing character, Boch Duco, which I think is one of the funniest, most well-realized characters that I've ever seen or heard.

Canada will bring us power for the future, Scandinavia the character, the steadiness…It's the grand concept for survival…a union of know-how, that's us, with power and character.

My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever … But you're a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….

One's friends ought to believe that one is a gentleman. Automatically. That is what makes one and them in harmony. Probably your friends are your friends because they look at situations automatically as you look at them…

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect that honour had, in itself, a quality of the evil eye . . .

But true mastery in The Martial Way involves more than mere physical prowess and expertise. The master warrior is a man of character, a man of wisdom and insight. These goals are far more elusive than those regarding technical expertise. Elusive they may be, but you can begin the long road towards character development by learning to recognize and pursue internal versus external objectives.

Dime lo que lees y te diré quién eres, eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.

Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

Oh,Sara. It is like a story. It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

It IS a story, said Sara. EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story—I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

Perhaps, she said, to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people.

And that is best of all, Ceddie,—it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived—even ever so little better, dearest.

She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.

Naturally, Jessie giggled again. "She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.

That's almost like telling lies," she said. "And lies—well, you see, they are not only wicked—they're vulgar.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was really a very simple thing, after all,—it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others. It is a very little thing, perhaps, but it is the best thing of all. He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

Por más harapos y jirones que vista, en mi interior puedo seguir siendo una princesa. María Antonieta en prisión, vestida de negro e insultada por su pueblo, tuvo más altura que cuando todo iba bien en la corte de Versalles —seguía cavilando Sara —. Es fácil parecer una princesa vistiendo ropajes de paño dorado, pero conducirse como tal sin que nadie lo sospeche, eso sí que es un gran triunfo