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A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay. — Confucius

The depth of perspective and strength of character are what make thinking profound. — Pearl Zhu

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. — John Holt

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do. — Orson Scott Card

I'd encourage Ann to cling to God's character in spite of what her circumstances screamed. — K. Howard Joslin

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves — Augustine Of Hippo

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it. — Madame De Stael

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. — Estelle Parsons

Matching character and actor is what a good director does. — Bruno Dumont

What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next. — Alexa Vega

People are rarely what they first appear - good, bad, or otherwise. — Jayne Castel

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

You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct. — Rick Warren

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him. — Paul Dano

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do. — Michael Josephson

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for. — Sebastian Horsley

You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again. — Amy Tan

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way. — Martin Amis

Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming. — Sarah Palin

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person. — Michael Angarano

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships. — Kevin Spacey

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. — Cassandra Clare

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. — William Davis

I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows. — Martin Short

Fortune is no real thing.
But men who cannot bear what comes to them
In Nature's way, give their own characters
The name of Fortune. — Menander

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other. — Diane Johnson

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference. — Ben Carson

We largely become what we have observed and respected. — Wayde Goodall

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is. — Henry Cavill

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing. — Kyle MacLachlan

A person's character is most clearly seen not by what they show, but what they hide. — Michelle Griep

The wealth of our character is determined by what we push ourselves to become. — A.R. Ivanovich

I think I have character, and that is what people like in me. — Carine Roitfeld

China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness. — Zhang Xin

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. — Gore Vidal

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. — Carlos Ghosn

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want. — Joyce Meyer

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything. — Mark Twain

I was never unhappy with the shows. I didn't get into [the writing]. I had an area. My area was my character. My area was what they gave me to do. — David Rasche

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. — Etty Hillesum

What you express in your character is what your lifestyle crowns — Sunday Adelaja

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode. — Linda Cardellini

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. — George Washington

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows. — James Arness

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play. — Julianna Margulies

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy. — Michael Sheen

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you. — Wayne W. Dyer

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. — Hal Holbrook

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. — John Lubbock

The strength of a man is less of the man and much more of who and what backs the man. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become. — Bruce Lee

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am. — Christopher Reeve

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works ... Character driven programming! — Tim DeKay

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character. — Robert Pattinson

A character is what he does. — Donald Miller

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character. — John Huston

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters. — Henry Fielding

It was a nephilim."
"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time. — Richelle Mead

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story. — Katie Cassidy

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?' — Stephen Moyer

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live. — Bayard Taylor

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. — Norman Douglas

I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look! — Gayathri Jayakumar

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. — Matthew Kelly

I can overlook the lie; what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character. — Richelle E. Goodrich

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character. — Martin Seligman

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

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do. — Jamie Dornan

[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

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

What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it? — Aaron B. Powell

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. — Evan Esar

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

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. — Christopher Lambert

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

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character. — Keri Russell

When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person. — Melissa McCarthy

Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character. — Judith McNaught

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director. — Tahar Rahim

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets. — Kate Morton

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear. — Dennis Hopper

Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick. — Lloyd John Ogilvie

It is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates the character of a person. — Joan D. Chittister

Yeah i thought about making the character of JD gay ... But then i thought, but what about all the poor girls dreams you'll be crushing — Zach Braff

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership. — John C. Maxwell

I'd love to be what I have been. — Raheel Farooq

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to. — Rob Morrow

What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character? — David Mitchell

There's only one reason why a character drinks: to seek confrontation. To fight for what they want in ways normally denied them. — Michael Shurtleff

Probably it's true what you think and you know... but I don't caareeee I'm a fake character... — Deyth Banger

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? — Stacy Hawkins Adams

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too. — Lauren Myracle

Character is what a man is in the dark — D.L. Moody

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices. — Flannery O'Connor

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things? — Sharon Gless

What can you do with a character who responds to everything by either punching it or deploying Bat Anti-thing Spray ... then punching it? — Yahtzee Croshaw