Quotes About Character

You are who you choose to be.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Every time we do something # GOOD . We # RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the # REVERSE is just as # TRUE .

Act right all the time, because someone's always watching.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I'm just growing as an artist and as a person.

Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.

Who you spend time with is who you become.

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.