Quotes About Character

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

I pray God to keep me from being proud.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Things have made you what you are," she recited "What you are will make you what you will become.

Discipline that isn't self-discipline doesn't mean a thing to a boy.

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

I'd managed to type more than two hundred consecutive pages about more or less the same characters who stayed more or less in the same place and more or less took part in the same story.

Things have made you what you are," she recited. "What you are will make you what you will become.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

But, learn that although all men are for sale, they don't sell themselves to all buyers.

It's what I've always said. To be alive is a reflection on one's character.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood, [Milton] attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakespeare becomes all things, yet for ever remaining himself.

He calls me Josephine. He says I'm an angel, a saint, his good lucky star. I know I'm no angel, but in truth I have begun to like this Josephine he sees. She is intelligent; she amuses; she is pleasing. She is grace and charm and heart. Unlike Rose; scared, haunted and needy. Unlike Rose with her sad life.

A person who aspires to goodness will come to useful realizations.

Those noble men who falsehood dread In wealth and glory ever grow, As flames with greater brightness glow With oil in ceaseless flow when fed.