This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
~ Lin Yutang
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
~ Og Mandino
In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.
~ Billy Dee Williams
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
~ Miriam Toews
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
~ Marcelene Cox
I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
~ Ed Helms
I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?
~ Norman Reedus
I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' which is cool, which is uncharted territory for your boy. It's nice to be called by your name when you're not in character.
~ Sterling K. Brown
What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.
~ Jake Epstein
When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
~ Orlando Bloom
I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.
~ Shia Labeouf
Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.
~ Blake Lively
So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
~ Kat Graham
It's just a really cool deal to be a character in 'WWE 2K17.' Whether it's competing on Nitro or Halloween Havoc, to have me as an available character... it's a tribute.
~ Bill Goldberg
It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.
~ Alexandra Daddario
I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
~ Anna Kendrick
I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
~ Vicki Lawrence
Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
~ Zac Efron
When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself.
~ Ben Hopkins
I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
~ Adam Brody
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
~ Mark Twain
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
~ Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
~ Billie Jean King
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
~ Heywood Broun
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
~ Don Rickles
A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
~ David Shields
I'm a character and a sports entertainer and a wrestler, but I'm also a father and a husband and a provider.
~ Roman Reigns
When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
~ Andy Serkis
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
~ John C. Calhoun
A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.
~ Seth Gordon
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
~ Damon Galgut
The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
~ Clive Thompson
The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
~ Anne Frank
Character is what a man is in the dark.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down.
~ Tim Burton
It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
~ Spike Jonze
A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.
~ Katherine Mcnamara
