It’s about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to hell. — Ellen Burstyn
You can’t just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. — Estelle Parsons
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time.. — Charlotte Saunders Cushman
What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person — Jeffrey Eugenides
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. — Thomas Paine
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he wouldthe measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. never be found out. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. — James Madison Jr
The southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. — Maria Mitchell
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The fact that the adult american negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement — Maya Angelou
Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
That’s sort of what I like about this character is that he’s not the good guy, he’s not truly the bad guy. — Nicholas Lea
Is there equality before the law? at every stage of the judicial process–facing the policeman — Howard Zinn
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I also have a film coming up called breaking up, and my part in that was not written for a latina. — Salma Hayek
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. — Woodrow Wilson
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent — H. Jackson Brown Jr.