Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

I don't build character. I eliminate the people who don't have it.

Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is a state of mind - you could call it 'character in action.'

Vince Lombardi

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

Vikram Seth

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Robert Goulet

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

Robert G. Allen

Rejection reveals your character.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing discloses character like the use of power.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

Richard Widmark

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

Rue McClanahan

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned that I had character defects, that I was allergic to alcohol and drugs, and that I had an obsession with all the bad stuff. But thank God that I woke and that I had good people around me to support me. There's not much more I can say about it. You have to want to be a better person.

Stockard Channing

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Stewart O'Nan

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

Stewart O'Nan

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

Stewart Cink

The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time to time. Some people choke under pressure. If you have that as part of your character - that you don't perform well under pressure - it's really important for you to know that. The game teaches you about that.

Steve Kanaly

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

Steve Earle

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Steve Coogan

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

Steve Coogan

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Stephen Sommers

I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.

Stephen Root

Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.

Stephen Root

I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.

Stephen Root

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

Stephen Root

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

Stephen Sondheim

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

Stephen Sondheim

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

Stephen Fry

Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

St. Jerome

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

St. Jerome

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

Sri Aurobindo

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

Sri Chinmoy

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

Sri Chinmoy

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

Sri Chinmoy

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.