Quotes About Character

It is a responsibility to be who you are and not let this sport [racing] change you and not let the good runs and success or the bad runs change you. You've got to be the same person all the time.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.

Whenever someone starts a statement with, Let me tell you the kind of guy I am, that is a great time to start sawing your own head off.

I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like: My character is just fine.

Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing.

the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed

Si hay algo en el mundo que me divierta de veras es el espectáculo de sus luchas mentales cuando una cuestión de principio está en pugna con una cuestión práctica, como es el dinero. Naturalmente, en usted el lado práctico siempre vence, pero yo continúo a su alrededor para ver si el lado mejor de su naturaleza logra triunfar algún día. Y, cuando llegue ese día, haré la maleta y me marcharé

Strong people don't like witnesses to their weakness.

It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.

Theros Ironfeld said once that—in all the years he had lived—he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.

Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.

Nuestro gran error está en tratar de obtener de cada uno en particular las virtudes que no posee, descuidando cultivar aquellas que posee.

Each of us has more virtues than he is credited with, but success alone brings them to view, perhaps because then we may be expected to cease practicing them.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

Not that anyone ever fancied someone because they were a kind person. If that was the case Mother Teresa would have to fend them off with sticks.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good.

The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.

A princess attracts a prince, and a queen attracts a king. Women who whine attract men who whine. Women full of the lioness heart attract men who are full of the lion.

los sentimientos de fracaso se presentan en todas nuestras vidas y que lo que importa es en quién nos convirtamos como resultado.

when we condescend, when we act consistently with a sense of the character of people in general which demeans them, we impoverish them AND ourselves, and preclude our having a part in the creation of the highest wealth, the testimony to the mysterious beauty of life we all value in psalms and tragedies and epics and meditations, in short stories and novels.