Quotes About Character

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.