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Peter Fonda You don't become the character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Action is character.
Gil Gerard I made the character as much...
Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a dream that my...
Kevyn Aucoin Beauty has a lot to do...
Menander The character of a man is...
Booker T. Washington Character is power.
Jerry Jones This is about heart, about...
Sean Bean I think that you always have...
Donald Pleasence I do not use any set...
Camille Pissarro Paint the essential character of...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect...
Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand...
Heywood Broun Sports do not build character...
Martin Luther King, Jr. I look to a day when...
Novalis A character is a completely...
Martin Luther King, Jr. The function of education is...
Alison Lohman I like to take a character...
Iain Banks I wouldn't like to be a...
John Wooden Be more concerned with your...
Henry David Thoreau Dreams are the touchstones of...
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Our character is what we do...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Judge of your natural character...
Ralph Waldo Emerson People seem not to see that...
Ralph Waldo Emerson People do not seem to realize...
Mark Twain A man's character may be...
Albert Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing shows a man's character...
Friedrich Nietzsche Character is determined more by...
Marcus Tullius Cicero A man's own manner and...
J. C. Watts Character is doing the right...
Ralph Waldo Emerson No change of circumstances can...
Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and...
Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Talent develops in quiet places...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Divine persons are character born...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is always known. Thefts...
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Weakness of character is the...
Benjamin Disraeli There is no index of character...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing in which...
Napoleon Bonaparte Great ambition is the passion...
Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in...
Joe Baca Our immigration system is a...
Theodore Roosevelt I care not what others think...
Donna Tartt Character, to me, is the...
Aristotle Character may almost be called...
Shannon Elizabeth I want to do a little...
Dwight L. Moody Character is what you are in...
Sam Ewing Hard work spotlights the character...
Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water...
Samuel Butler Every man's work, whether it...
Billy Graham When wealth is lost, nothing...
Benjamin Disraeli There is no greater index of...
Ovid Habits change into character.
Talcott Parsons From all this it follows what...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men show their character in...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca I never come back home with...
Albert Einstein One strength of the communist...
Rosario Dawson I thought my character definitely...
Tracey Ullman Every character I do is based...
Plato The man who makes everything...
Robert Goulet You play your character and it...
Guillermo C. Infante I don't much believe in the...
Albert Einstein Most people say that is it...
Theodore Roosevelt A vote is like a rifle...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character, in great and little...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character develops itself in the...
Leonardo DiCaprio I really don't know what I'm...
Camilla Belle By knowing your character so...
Elizabeth Moon It's hard to hold the focus...
Elbert Hubbard Character is the result of two...
Heraclitus Character is destiny.
Maya Angelou The fact that the adult...
David Ogden Stiers It's really important to stay...
Soundarya I'd like to be known for...
Marcus Tullius Cicero Our character is not so much...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The formation of one's character...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character is formed in the...
Vince Gill When all is said and done...
Marcus Tullius Cicero It is not by muscle, speed...
Mary Richards To have character is to be...
Vincente Minnelli I use colors to bring fine...
Kenneth Burke We not only interpret the...
Walter Anderson Bad things do happen; how I...
Larry David At first, I didn't realize it...
Edward James Olmos Basically, I think that there...
Ronald Reagan You can tell a lot about...
Jean de la Bruyere It's motive alone which gives...
Joel Coen You're doing it to make the...
Sharon Gless I don't believe there is any...
Aristotle What the statesman is most...
Herbert Spencer Education has for its object...
Mohandas Gandhi The real ornament of woman is...
Fran Drescher I've gone very far, far away...
Michelle Branch I put myself into character...
David Selby I don't think they knew...
Vincent D'Onofrio When you are a character actor...
William James No matter how full a reservoir...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan I'm called away by particular...
Ronald Reagan You can tell alot about a...
Elmer G. Letterman Personality can open doors, but...
Abraham Lincoln You cannot build character and...
Samuel Butler Life is a quarry, out of...
Ken Follett When I'm writing a woman...
William James Individuality is founded in feeling...
Rue McClanahan I've been allowed to develop...
Helen Keller Character cannot be developed in...
Peter Mayhew After a while, the character...
William Ellery Channing Each of us is meant to...
George W. Bush Leadership to me means duty...
Lord Chesterfield Character must be kept bright...
Francis Bacon Of all virtues and dignities...
Swami Sivananda If you do not know the...
William James It is well for the world...
Estelle Parsons But today I felt different...
Salma Hayek There's a lot about the...
Thomas Paine Character is much easier kept...
Jean Paul A man never discloses his own...
Edward Gibbon Style is the image of...
Thomas A. Edison What a man's mind can create...
Anne Frank Parents can only give good...
Carrot Top I think the more you do...
Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we...
Oliver Wendell Holmes A pun does not commonly...
Margaret Mahy I was able to work out...
Dwight L. Moody Character is what a man is...
Oliver Stone Well first of all you have...
Robert Englund I always get inspiration from...
Jean de la Bruyere It is fortunate to be of...
Edward Hopper In general it can be said...
Ted Shackelford What happens if you're the guy...
Tennessee Williams Some mystery should be left in...
Marcello Mastroianni Theater actors like to change...
George Santayana The philosophy of the common...
Dianne Wiest I used to watch dailies and...
Bo Bennett The discipline you learn and...
Theodore Roosevelt Character, in the long run, is...
Leonardo DiCaprio I like to be able to...
Mike Judge Why should every single character...
Bruce Boxleitner I think every leading man...
Tommy Chong I know, because I tried all...
Dean Inge The proper time to influence...
Thomas B. Macaulay The measure of a man's real...
Dag Hammarskjold It is easy to be nice...
Nicholas Lea That's sort of what I like...
Matthew Ashford It ended up being a very...
George Washington I hope I shall always possess...
Sara Gilbert No, I feel like my personality...
Mary Tyler Moore I'm not an actress who can...
Zebulon Pike In my proper character, I am...
Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would...
Beau Bridges My favorite roles usually have...
Georg C. Lichtenberg A person reveals his character...
Lori Loughlin When you are developing a...
Rita Mero I have no regrets in my...
Graham Greene The moment comes when a...
E. O. Wilson True character arises from a...
Walter Kaufmann The first function of a book...
George Santayana Character is the basis of...
Norman Douglas You can construct the character...
William Ellery Channing Every human being is intended...
Nicholas Lea I wanted more in depth ideas...
Ayn Rand Love is the expression of...
Henry Ford Life is a series of...
Jim Rohn Character isn't something you were...
Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn...
Catherine Keener If you give a character room...
Charlie Chaplin A man's true character comes...
Robert Baden-Powell An individual step in character...
Peter Bondra We're getting rewarded. We don't...
Confucius When we see persons of worth...
Alexander Pope If a man's character is to...
Charles Spurgeon A good character is the best...
Gil Gerard Up to that point I never...
Brion James I'm a character actor, so I...
Jacqueline Bisset Not everyone likes watching rushes...
Arthur Schopenhauer National character is only another...
Heraclitus A man's character is his fate...
Lloyd Bridges For four years doing that same...
Charlotte Ross I would assume most people...
William Bennett It is our character that...
Henry Drummond Strength of character may be...
George W. Bush Today we affirm a new...
Elena Anaya Always, your work is the same...
Victoria Abril When you have to get into...
Antonio Tabucchi The most important basis of...
Miss Clark Reputation is not of enough...
Catherine Deneuve You get involved with a...
John Wooden Winning takes talent, to repeat...
James Boswell I have discovered that we may...
Albert Schweitzer The willow which bends to the...
Debbie Reynolds I wanted to be as comfortable...
Henry Miller Plots and character don't make...
Friedrich Von Schlegel The German national character is...
Robert Browning Hamilton Love, hope, fear, faith - these...
Orison Swett Marden Your outlook upon life, your...
Vince Gill Success is always temporary. When...
Thomas Perry What I look for in any...
Joe Shuster I think initially we wanted to...
James Q. Wilson Crime is the price society...
Arthur Conan Doyle I have frequently gained my...
Illeana Douglas When I do a character, I...
Joe Mantegna I'm a character actor so I've...
Liev Schreiber If I'm doing my job as...
David Ogden Stiers When something really extreme happens...
Ruth Rendell I really do literally put...
Samuel George Morton The moral and intellectual character...
Mary Wollstonecraft In every age there has been...
Christian Slater The movies I've made at a...
Patrick Warburton My only job as an actor...
Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were...
James Polk Foreign powers do not seem to...
Phillips Brooks Character may be manifested in...
Ovid Note too that a faithful study...
Ray Romano You don't want to shock them...
Bill Frist From blood banking to the...
Arthur Schopenhauer Rascals are always sociable, more's...
Charlie Chaplin I had no idea of the...
John Lubbock Your character will be what...
Suzanne Vega So you eat, you sleep, and...
Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles, and when...
Chuck Palahniuk If death meant just leaving...
Horace Greeley Fame is a vapor, popularity an...
Bo Bennett Martial arts is not about...
James A. Michener Character consists of what you...
Arnold Schwarzenegger The resistance that you fight...
Sean Hannity I think you need people of...
Epictetus Imagine for yourself a character...
Eleanor Roosevelt Only a man's character is the...
Tom Selleck I feel the other element of...
Ernest Hemingway When writing a novel a writer...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In character, in manner, in...
George Washington The foolish and wicked practice...
Raymond Queneau We have gotten away from this...
George Edmund Street An absolutely different and distinctive...
George Washington I hope I shall possess...
Helena Bonham Carter Usually I'm frustrated when I...
William H. Macy If I like the story and...
Dwight L. Moody If I take care of my...
Ally Sheedy I think that acting involves...
Roger Moore Creating a character on or off...
George H. Mead What gives it its human...
Orlando Bloom A big part of what I...
Alfred Hitchcock When an actor comes to me...
Adam Sandler This character feels so much...
J. C. Watts Character is doing what's right...
Emma Goldman The higher mental development of...
Richard M. Nixon You've got to learn to survive...
Catherine Deneuve I don't live that much with...
Margaret J. Wheatley Thinking is the place where...
Rosamund Pike The job of an actor is...
E. Stanley Jones Character is supreme in life...
Henry James What is character but the...
Morgan Freeman Still, it can be more...
W. Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering...
William Hurt If you're lucky, and not a...
Aeschylus It is in the character of...
Paul Ricoeur The narrative constructs the identity...
Rod Steiger Well, one of the problems of...
David Hume Character is the result of a...
James Taylor I am myself for a living...
Gary Ryan Blair Money is always on its way...
Salvador Dali Progressive art can assist people...
Mark-Paul Gosselaar When they do bring on new...
Gillian Anderson I am more spontaneous than my...
Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the...
Ralph W. Sockman A man has no more character...
Keanu Reeves You want to play another kind...
Lyndon B. Johnson The fact that a man is...
Blair Underwood In terms of the black female...
Randy Harrison When you watch it, you're like...
Norman Jewison With most British actors, it's...
Kyra Sedgwick While it is challenging working...
Andre Maurois If you create an act, you...
Christian Bale When it comes to films, people...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Simplicity in character, in manners...
Maya Lin I probably spent the first 20...
Frederick Douglass A man's character always takes...
Fritz Sauckel I did that all the more...
Jean Paul We learn our virtues from our...
Jennifer Lopez You have to come in and...
Colin Hay There's a fine line between...
Peter Jennings Whatever you may think of Mrs...
Fiona Shaw So I just play the character...
Kathleen Turner I would certainly choose my...
Zig Ziglar It was character that got us...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is a beautiful trait in...
James Mill Every man should be considered...
Sigourney Weaver I'd be more interested in...
Marcus Aurelius Such as are your habitual...
Richard Roxburgh You have to sort of see...
Jacqueline Bisset Character contributes to beauty. It...
John Stuart Mill Eccentricity has always abounded when...
Alison Bechdel It's a hard thing to age...
Orlando Bloom Yeah, I mean the material...
Richard M. Nixon If we take the route of...
Shelby Foote I'm crazy about Grant: his...
Norman Jewison A lot of American actors I...
David Ellis You have to understand the...
Baruch Spinoza Peace is not the absence of...
Stefan Edberg I've been in a lot of...
Dustin Hoffman Well first of all, it's hard...
Louis Farrakhan Black leadership has to recognize...
Ron Glass In terms of the character...
Lusia Strus Acting is very much like a...
Sam Mendes It took me a long time...
Estelle Parsons You can't just trust to luck...
Friedrich Von Schlegel Wit is the appearance, the...
Corin Nemec It's all about creating a back...
Bubba Smith You know, he would go and...
Quentin Crisp The consuming desire of most...
Jason Schwartzman I love the idea of playing...
Michael Berryman Yeah, it's fun to be somebody...
Willa Cather To note an artist's limitations...
Kurt Masur You have to change your mind...
Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated...
Don Bluth If you look at the game...
Ray Romano If I'm really considering doing...
Wyclef Jean I always want to know what's...
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Only what we have wrought into...
Dennis Rodman There's one thing everyone should...
Jennifer Lopez So I sat down with him...
Julie Benz If you're offered something, you're...
Anne Tyler I do write long, long...
Martin Milner My main worry is that after...
Charles de Gaulle Faced with crisis, the man of...
Blair Underwood It could be a great script...
P. J. O'Rourke In our brief national history...
Kelly Lynch I can't wait til I get...
Helena Bonham Carter What I loved about playing the...
Eli Wallach Well, I go to the theater...
Jim Henson If you're doing a large...
Terrence Howard Every role you play is...
Michael Burgess Our Nation is in great need...
T. S. Eliot All significant truths are private...
Ella Maillart The benefits of the accomplished...
Charles Eastman Friendship is held to be the...
George Matthew Adams There is no such thing as...
Roger Mudd No matter what name we give...
Mercedes Lackey I try to use all of...
Johnny Miller Match play really exposes your...
Evelyn Underhill There is no place in my...
Jeri Ryan I've loved the escapism of...
Emma Goldman To the indefinite, uncertain mind...
Richard Kiel It is always more fun to...
Stephen Covey Our character is basically a...
Roy L. Smith The man who cannot believe in...
Cat Stevens Ever since I became a Muslim...
Hakeem Olajuwon All these boundaries - Africa, Asia...
John Stuart Mill All action is for the sake...
Brittany Murphy I consider myself a character...
Manuel Puig I locate that special problem...
Richard Russo I have to have a character...
Hunter Tylo If I was a bad character...
Jerry Garcia If we had any nerve at...
Joel Coen I guess there's a certain...
Flannery O'Connor All my stories are about the...
Christopher Walken I'd love to do a character...
W. Somerset Maugham When you choose your friends...
Wendie Malick I don't know how many times...
John Irving I've always been a fan of...
Sean Connery I care about Bond and what...
William Shatner When I did the film...
Sigmund Freud The psychoanalysis of neurotics has...
Boris Yeltsin Europe has found itself confronted...
Jerry Hall I love doing theater so much...
Sarah Chalke But to be part of helping...
Taylor Caldwell Character, I am sure, lies in...
Lawrence Lessig A time is marked not so...
Mike Judge It seems like there's a lot...
Frank Lloyd Wright Organic buildings are the strength...
Patricia Clarkson I think it kind of took...
Thomas Paine Reputation is what men and...
T. S. Eliot A toothache, or a violent...
Jerry B. Jenkins The theater of the mind is...
Donna Mills There were episodes where I...
Georg C. Lichtenberg If all else fails, the...
Steve Burton Actually, I get a little say...
Jim Jarmusch I start with actors that I...
Parminder Nagra In terms of the frustration of...
Donald Pleasence The process of creation goes...
Ryan Gosling I don't think you can...
Madeleine Stowe I genuinely liked all of the...
Andrew C. Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main...
Sarah Zettel I describe my plots as follows...
John Sayles The hardest thing about movie...
Leon Trotsky The depth and strength of a...
Wilhelm Wundt Now, there are a very large...
Sara Gilbert Especially when you play a...
Alfred de Vigny The human mind, I believe...
Trish Stratus And I have the support of...
Eleanor Roosevelt People grow through experience if...
Jim Jarmusch I wanted to make an Indian...
Elizabeth Wurtzel I thought depression was the...
Bernard Baruch During my eighty-seven years I...
Anthony Michael Hall In the years since I worked...
Pam Grier Well, thank you and that's for...
Friedrich August von Hayek I regard it in fact as...
Luke Wilson That's one of those things...
Dee Hock If you look to lead, invest...
Harvey Fierstein You know, I always got offered...
Joe Morton The advice that I usually give...
Thomas Chandler Haliburton The happiness of every country...
Jenna Elfman It was the most pleasurable...
Dick Wolf The story drove the book. That...
Evan Esar A signature always reveals a...
Margaret Mahy Of course there are big...
Bill Condon A scientist is an unlikely...
Marquis de Sade Man's natural character is to...
Salma Hayek For my wrap present, Colin...
Edwin Louis Cole Character is more important than...
Damon Albarn It's not like my old self...
J. C. Watts Everyone tries to define this...
Neil LaBute But even with a character like...
Plutarch In words are seen the state...
Marguerite Moreau I didn't need clothes. I was...
Fredrik Bajer By a great man, however, we...
Sean Bean I sort of leave the character...
James Russell Lowell Sincerity is impossible, unless it...
Harry Hamlin I get to play a great...
Matthew Ashford After doing this, going away...
John Adams Because power corrupts, society's demands...
James Allen The law of harvest is to...
Patrick Warburton I thought he was an...
Robert Patrick I've been doing this 17 years...
Lee Tergesen I would say that playing this...
Lizzy Caplan I think being mean to people...
Giacomo Casanova Heart and head are the...
Meryl Streep I didn't have any confidence...
Jeffrey Jones Every actor wants to have a...
Jeanne Tripplehorn But I don't think that it's...
Robert Carlyle I'm in four different films...
Eric Clapton Yeah, it is, because it's a...
Plutarch Character is long-standing habit...
Samuel Smiles It is energy - the central...
Bill Griffith But now with technology I...
Mary Tyler Moore And that's what the audience...
Jeanne Moreau I gradually work myself into a...
Jenna Elfman And as a character, what I...
Emmet Fox It is the food which you...
Zig Ziglar The foundation stones for a...
Bubba Smith Well, everybody knew their character...
Mark Ruffalo I think we've all been kind...
Sarah Chalke Walking into a show when I...
Jeremy Bulloch Then there's going to be...
Alan Dean Foster Besides the mistakes that are...
Scott Speedman There's nothing worse - I don't...
Halle Berry It is very hard to separate...
Judith Light I loved my role on Who's...
Richard Price If you're writing a book that...
Bette Davis I don't think of myself as...
Jhonen Vasquez I take little bits and pieces...
Jeanette Winterson I wanted to invent myself as...
Victoria Pratt I approach my character with...
Arthur Miller He's not the finest character...
Derek Jacobi I shall miss all the people...
Jimmy Buffett Places I've lived since then...
Walter Benjamin The destructive character lives from...
Bob Woodward I don't think voters give a...
Victoria Pratt I read every script from...
Andrea Martin I really believed that if I...
Esther Williams Somehow I kept my head above...
Ryan Gosling I try to play characters who...
Thomas John Barnardo Character is better than ancestry...
August Strindberg A man with a so-called...
Josh Lucas I'll look at the script and...
Ryan Gosling I just sort of take it...
Will Estes A lot of directors are great...
Jim Jarmusch I love rehearsing because in...
Fred Saberhagen There are interactions with characters...
Bill Griffith My first character was Mr...
Helena Bonham Carter You learn to rely on a...
Harrison Ford My character is meant to know...
Gil Gerard I brought my personality and...
Herbert Read A man of personality can...
Billie Jean King Sports teaches you character, it...
Thomas Perry But at the same time, the...
John Amos They killed my character off...
J. Reuben Clark Reduced to its lowest terms...
Robert Morgan The Black Mountain poet I like...
Ashley Judd When I was working on Eye...
Laurell K. Hamilton Two things I do well in...
Miguel de Cervantes The most difficult character in...
E. Stanley Jones Some have said that the power...
Gwen Stefani I was thinking that when I...
Mary H. Jones The strike of the miners in...
Andre Braugher To me, the psychology behind...
Ellen Burstyn It's about avoiding reality through...
John W. Holt, Jr. The true test of character is...
Uma Thurman It's hard sometimes if you...
Victor Garber I find out more about Jack...
Meryl Streep If I am not confident that...
Cesar Chavez Our language is the reflection...
Juliette Lewis The thing is, I want to...
Anne Frank The final forming of a...
Robert Patrick You can't think about how...
Keenen Ivory Wayans I go through a whole process...
Cyril Connolly The true index of a man's...
Christian Bale My hope is that people will...
Len Wein The most unrealistic thing I've...
Stephen Ambrose Washington's character was rock solid...


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