There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!