Revealing Character Quotes

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.