Browsing Topic Best Great Character Quotes

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that’s a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements – it doesn’t even have to have great characters or great stories – it’s just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I’ll jump in and I’ll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.

The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.

When it’s all said and done, I’m very, very glad to work in this business, but that’s exactly what it is. It’s a business, and I get to do the fun half of it. I get paid to pretend. I get to play really great characters. And, we have such a wonderful writer. She just knows people so intricately, and it’s so fun to be able to act out her words.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we’re collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone’s eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer’s shop.

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between – I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn’t exist, which I really appreciated.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it’s in film, or whatever it is, man – as long as it’s good, and on the level, I’m open to it.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought, that often distinguished Americans in earlier times and that is invariably the preeminent trait of great characters wherever it exists.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it’s got to be a great script and a great character.

The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he’s from Sons of Anarchy and he’s a great character actor) and he’s also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It’s just more dense and there’s more time to tell stories.

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don’t love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

The Dain Curse [Tom Fink] was a great job. I was in New York, and I was young – I think I’m 28 years old in that – and I got to work with James Coburn and Jean Simmons and Jason Miller. Plus, it was a Dashiell Hammett story, and I had a great character. It was fantastic to shoot.

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what’s important. Even if the script isn’t that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I’ll go for it.

Everyone in this world is dealt a different hand – some better, some worse than others – but what’s more important is how you play that hand. This is what builds character. And with great character comes great reward.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.