Character Quotes · Page 16

If you want to know someone's mind, listen to their words. If you want to know their heart, watch their actions.

— Anonymous

Your character is who you are. To understand yourself is to know your character. To love yourself is to love your character.

— Anonymous

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for…

— Robert Southey

I am used to experiencing so much trauma, that when I see it, I have to speak out. I don't think rappers…

— JPEGMAFIA

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while…

— Tennessee Williams

“If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.”

— Émile Souvestre

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I…

— Charles Dickens

I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm…

— Alexander Payne

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined…

— Luigi Pirandello

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part…

— T. S. Eliot

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city…

— Karen Kijewski

That's the fun thing of casting a show. I'm a pretty strong believer that TV makes stars, not the other way around.…

— Tim Kring

If the character is getting mad, getting upset or getting turned on, you're getting to see that in the facial tones and…

— Michael Rooker

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter…

— Dan Aykroyd

I'm someone's mom, but if I took the mom away, if I took Top Model away, like, who is Eva? Who am…

— Eva Marcille

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in…

— Ron Chernow

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it…

— Naomie Harris

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Carlos Ghosn

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is…

— Steven Pinker

There's two sides to Trump's character, at least his pre-presidential character. One was, 'I'm the richest man you could possibly imagine, I…

— David Fahrenthold

I do love editorials - youre free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

— Jacquelyn Jablonski

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work…

— Kirsten Dunst