#Character

"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."

"It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."

"All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way."

"I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to."

"I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life."

"I must be a great leader because many people follow me. Most of the people are police officers, if that gives you any indication of my character."

"The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925."

"There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor."

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’."

"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it"

"In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness."

"Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing."

"I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate."

"I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character."

"When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you."