Top Character Quotes
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
Dmitri Mendeleev
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
James K. Polk
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln 
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude 
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You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
Neve Campbell 
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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
Donald E. Westlake 
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries 
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
Radha Mitchell 
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Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.
Julie Bishop 
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