Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
Arnold Palmer

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino

I'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 Walken

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

This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.
Herbert Hoover

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
Dean Koontz

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
Louis Farrakhan

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Meryl Streep

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep

Politics ruins the character.
Otto von Bismarck

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.
Stephen Colbert

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
Dan Aykroyd

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
George Santayana

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
George Santayana

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
Larry David

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky