Top 1200 Character Trait Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm going to get lost in a character." You can't get lost in a character. You can only think you're lost in a character.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

This will always be a nation of immigrants. It is the one common trait we all share.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character.

I admire honesty more than any other trait.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

I want to push that no matter what race you are, you're never just a sidekick or broken character. You're the main character, you're the funny character, you can be whatever you want.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

I realized there's a difference between creating a character and sustaining a character. The challenge that comes with sustaining a character is that you have this sudden impulse to think about all the things the audience liked.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare.

I love people who really turn their lives around. I think it's such a wonderful human trait.

To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.

If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Impulsiveness is not a trait one would choose for a person with the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

I think my biggest trait is to play extremely hard within the rules of the game.

If I have an audition, I go to the audition in character. I'm in character when I walk in the room. I mean, I'm still sweet to everyone, but I'm very much the character.

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

That's just a trait that I have. I feel like I've always been a leader.

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

I've always kind of been even-keeled. I think that's a good trait for a quarterback to have.

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

If anything, in the podcast world, I'm relieved that I don't have to dress like the character. I don't necessarily have to do all of the physicality that conveys the character, but do as much as I need to help me feel like the character.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

I think I was just born like that, a personality trait. I'm an observer.

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has to come from the character.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

Every character gives you something or the other, and you can't calculate it unless you are living the character. You learn something about the character that stays with you.