The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.