4011 Character Quotes for You to Enjoy

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' Alfred Hitchcock

Character Me Say Says He Motivation His Salary Discuss Wants Script Your Actor

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly. Benjamin Franklin

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway

Character People Writing Living Caricature Characters Writer Create Should Novel

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. J. C. Watts

Character Looking Everyone Define Tries Nobody Doing Hard Right Thing

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James Anthony Froude

Character You Yourself Dream Must Hammer Forge Cannot

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same. Jessie Pavelka

Life Work Journey Character Me Dark Light My Journey Help Others Others Those Dark Places Both Through Learned Because How Led Same Experiences Places Help Defects

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character People Nothing Laugh Betray More Than Which

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character. John Ortberg

I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being - either you like them or you don't. You might not be able to list the reasons why you love your best friend or what attracted you to them; it's just something that you feel - a connection, an understanding, or a curiosity that makes you want to get to know them. Katherine Waterston

Love Best Character You Human Being Understanding Think Best Friend Able Something Feel Like Know Attracted Makes Friend Curiosity Get List Any Human Just Being Want Just Something Either Them Might Your Reasons Connecting Connection Why

Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy. Lee Tamahori

Character You Be Original Will Rest Be True Seen Easy Given Never True Come Another Always Been Duplicate Original Actor

When so-called child's play turns hostile, and a child becomes a victim, it is time to act. Victims of cyberbullying do not choose to participate. Rather than build character, bullying can cause children to become anxious, fearful, unhappy, and even cause them to be physically sick. Linda Sanchez

Time Bullying Character Cause Unhappy Build Become Victim Sick Fearful Rather Physically Hostile Participate Becomes Than Child Anxious Children So-Called Victims Them Act Cyberbullying Turns Choose Even Play

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. Lysander Spooner

Government Character Too Criminal Arbitrary Most Oligarchy Slave

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. Orison Swett Marden

Life Day Character You Yourself Every Day People Will Value Every Outlook Colored Shaped Contact Environment Come Surroundings Estimate Modified Molded Your Whole Whom Largely Career

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. Paul Newman

Character You Enemies

We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. Richard Eyre

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. Robert Browning

Love Hope Faith Character Humanity Fear Sign Make Note

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson

Health Good Character Knowledge Property Money Will Power Lose Destroyed Purchasing Purchasing Power Demand Judgement Always Conditions May

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. Stephen Covey

Positive Home Strength Character Will Positive Influence Security Potential Developing Institution Talents Effectively Child Personal Influence Substitute Skills Unique Compare Ever Interpersonal Inner

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. Stephen Covey

Strength Great Character Heart Great Deal Values Sense Possess Out Security Must Rather Takes Himself Principles Deal Genuinely Quickly Than Person Order Pity Apologize Deep Fundamental Fundamental Principles

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character. Tupac Shakur

Character You Yourself Rap Constantly Got Train Albums

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. Walter Annenberg

Character Greedy Mark Bad Bad Character Pigs Always Go Want Believed

I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face? Walter Brennan

Character You People Old Face Girl See Something Never Glamour Like Because Boy Real Real Character His Get Did Any Anybody Them Old People Expression Ever Play

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character Change Circumstances Repair Defect

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. Albert Schweitzer

Moving On Great Character Better Sometimes Light Mind Calamities Bends Those Oak Willow Tempest Spirits Recover Sooner Than Escapes Frivolous Often Happens Which Elasticity Presence

Whenever I see a mirror, I just look at myself, or when I see my own reflection, I quickly take a look; I won't lie about that. But when I am in front of the camera, it's just the character, not me. Alia Bhatt

Myself Character Me Lie Reflection Mirror Own See About My Own Take Look Am Camera Quickly Front Just Whenever

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