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Quotes About Character

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
~ Christine Baranski
Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.
~ Tom Felton
There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.
~ Scott Speedman
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
~ Junot Diaz
If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.
~ Ray Winstone
As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.
~ Kevin DeYoung
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
~ Simon Greenleaf
We will unconditionally worship Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, partly because we approve of their well-mannered modesty. They are non-threatening, good hearted blokes - the boys we take home to Momma.
~ Barkha Dutt
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.
~ Leslie Odom, Jr.
My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.
~ Enrique Iglesias
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
~ George Washington
One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.
~ Christian Bale
We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.
~ Elizabeth Rodriguez
Pressure brings the best out of people, or it can bring the worst out. It's just how you use it.
~ Clint Dempsey
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
~ J. D. Vance
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
~ Juvenal
The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.
~ Milos Forman
The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and my optimistic expectations. He's a cautionary tale for me. But he's also an examination of the darkest things that haunt me as a person.
~ Miguel Syjuco
Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.
~ Kelsey Grammer
Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.
~ Gene Wilder
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
~ David Ignatius
I think that's what's thrilling about leadership - when you're holding onto literally the worst possible hand on the planet and you know you're still going to win. How are you still going to win? Because that's when the character of the company really comes out.
~ Jensen Huang
I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
~ Abby Wambach