A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W. Sockman

Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.
Rooney Mara

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Arthur Golden

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Lord Chesterfield

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
John Irving

What 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 Carrey

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
Dmitri Mendeleev

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
Rowan Atkinson

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
Rowan Atkinson

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.
Rowan Atkinson

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
Rowan Atkinson

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
Rowan Atkinson

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
Julia Roberts

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.
George Lopez

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley Jones