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Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life — Joseph Campbell

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character. — William Hurt

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture. — Ann Demeulemeester

When a character wants to do one thing and I want him to do another, the character is usually right. — Madeleine L'Engle

The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those. — Jeffrey Klarik

The third gift is Courage. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path. — Charlene Costanzo

Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength. — Abhijit Naskar

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago, — Masahiro Sakurai

I like exploring, especially being and getting more comfortable with a character and in the space a character is always in. — Emily Bett Rickards

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all. — John Willis Zumwalt

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore

If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have both demeaned yourself ill in that and quitted one which you might have supported. — Epictetus

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. — Jan Karon

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work. — Julian Jarrold

For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny - but how we relate to what happens. — Lama Surya Das

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently. — Jesse McCartney

I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character. — Jacquelyn Jablonski

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me. — Francine Rivers

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

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert

If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything. — David Steindl-Rast

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. — Brad Pitt

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game. — Lee Child

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season — John Terry

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character. — Denis Waitley

It's just so much more exciting to have no limits and to be able to take your character as far as you want or need to get where you want to go. — Lindsay Pulsipher

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job. — Carey Mulligan

Every story is a scorcher and has the ultimate alpha-male character. - AngelinaT — Scarlett Avery

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure. — Eiji Yoshikawa

The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. — Graham Collier

Live real strong in union with Christ".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands. — Ricky Gervais

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. — Michael Josephson

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally. — Jane Kaczmarek

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle. — Jim Henson

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices. — Richard G. Scott

I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders

I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life. — Larry The Cable Guy

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters. — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man. — Robin M. Bertram

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. — Calvin Coolidge

There are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live. — Patricia Storace

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened. — John C. Maxwell

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — Kevin J. Anderson

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown

Hard 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 Ewing

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. — Ilya Ehrenburg

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values. — Pierre Bonnard

I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great. — John Stamos

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. — Annie Proulx

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut. — Walton Goggins

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. — Donald Creighton

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character. — Om Puri

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making people look good. It's really creating the character. — Kristen Connolly

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. — Laura Amy Schlitz

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character. — Aasif Mandvi

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women. — Paul C. Nagel

I don't want to get pigeon-holed into a certain kind of character. I love action roles and the hero, but I want to keep trying something new. — Michael Trucco

Suffering produces Character, and Character produces Hope, and Hope does not disappoint us — Jeremy Lin

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. — Helen Oyeyemi

Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch. — Dave Anderson

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards. — Jay Pharoah

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The power of a woman is in her beauty. Show it off every time you have the chance — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity. — Dexter Fletcher

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation. — Maria Montessori

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again. — Nicholas Braun

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. — Kelli O'Hara

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on. — Greg Iles

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny. — Samuel Smiles

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't. — T.I.

There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. — Pat Conroy

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. — Jon Stewart

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust. — J. P. Morgan

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. — Graham Greene

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. — Louis L'Amour

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits. — Raheel Farooq

The pain you experience today creates the strength and character you'll need tomorrow. — Charles F. Glassman

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence. — Steve Largent

Those who try and destroy another person's character with lies ... end up destroying themselves in the process. — Timothy Pina

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home. — Frances Moore Lappe

There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character. — Mindy Kaling

You will see true character after a defeated ambition — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values. — Susan Estrich

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that. — Angela Bassett

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously. — Uwe Boll

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen

It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks. — Adam Gilchrist

Every time you suffer a negative blow in life, simply turn it into a character for a story, make it pay, and kill it off!! — A.M. Sawyer

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. — Christine Baranski