Famous Quotes: Character

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
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I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.
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My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.
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I've always thought of myself as more of a character actress. I've tried to do different things, but I've always been under the radar and that's how I like it. I've been really blessed to work this long and I just hope I continue to get better and better and better and better.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
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Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
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