It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee

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

Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Calvin Coolidge

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

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Lyndon B. Johnson

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Mary Wollstonecraft

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Richard M. Nixon

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Richard M. Nixon

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-Powell

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen