I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
NovalisA man's character is his guardian divinity.
HeraclitusIt was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig ZiglarCharacter is power.
Booker T WashingtonCassidy is the sexiest character I’ve played yet. This one girl has something for every guy.
Jennifer SkyTalents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheI'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
Christopher WalkenCuriosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Samuel JohnsonCity toff, country yokel - all his characters were brilliantly observed and so believable [on Ronnie Baxter]
Des O'Connor'It's not always a bed of roses, but the blend of characters makes the
strength of the team.' - A team-building tip
Steve RedgraveCharacter is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Friedrich NietzscheWe learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul RichterIf you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour.
Jennifer JonesPoverty is the schoolmaster of character.
AntiphanesI kinda see him as an ordinary everyday schizophrenic psychopath. [on his character]
Brian CapronMy character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio NelsonStrong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul RichterAlthough cyber attacks have caused billions of dollars in damage and affected the lives of millions, few if any can be characterised as acts of terrorism.
Dorothy DenningI can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.
David CoulthardA man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Jean Paul RichterThe analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac SingerWhen you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice HoffmanA man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself. He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.
John FosterEducation commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea BallouI never try to completely do a character, if you know what I mean. I always feel like I'm just being me, but in the character's situation.
Jonny Lee MillerSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounI'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
Kevin SpaceyShe's bound to upset a few of the Newton Park officers [on her new character]
Leslie AshHard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam EwigWhat I have in common with the character in ‘Truman’ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim CarreyNoble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great
Carlo GoldoniKnowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil GibranMan may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it. - as her character Carrie in Sex And The City.
Sarah Jessica ParkerI think Graham Thorpe's a massive part of England's summer, especially coming up against Australia. He's the sort of character they are going to desperately need.
Rob KeyI started doing some acoustic things. When my character was out at sea on a tanker, running his fleet, he'd just noodle around on his guitar. So I did an Eric Clapton song, and then I wrote a song to be used as a theme for a story line. That's how it started.
Jack WagnerPower is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength
Edward Bulwer-LyttonIn the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
Frederic FarrarEspecially when you audition for animated characters - you can have more fun.
Julie BenzThe fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon JohnsonNo author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies
Edward Bulwer-LyttonA man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
Helen RowlandA scientist is an unlikely character to put at the centre of a movie.
Bill CondonIf you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not
A B Guthrie JrI start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Theodor GeiselIt's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has many characters, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it.
John CrowleyThere are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
Thomas ChalmersI would like nothing better than to straighten out some things that have been mischaracterised.
O J SimpsonWe loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake (Character of the late Dr S. Annesley)
Daniel DefoeOur character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H Jackson Brown JrAbout ten years ago I appeared on Wogan as myself. The next day a man came up to me in the street and said, 'You're Harry Enfield, aren't you? I love your characters! Stavros cracks me up and as for Loadsamoney - he's the biz! But I saw you on Wogan last night - you're a right prat in real life, aren't you?'
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