Quotes about character
character honor foundation
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. Arthur Schopenhauer
character focus looks
Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing. Anil Kapoor
character
I like to take a character and develop it Alison Lohman
character age fleeting-time
Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life. Ann Brashares
character littles conservative
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays. Ann Coulter
character thinking people
I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms. Andy Garcia
character men unjust-criticism
Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing. Andy Andrews
character eye memorable
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships. Andrea Barrett
character personality feminist
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. Andrea Dworkin
character america suffering
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much. Andrea Bocelli
character important done
Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character. Ana Ortiz
character preparation way
Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can. Ana Gasteyer
character writing years
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. Amy Waldman
character trying layers
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.
character greatness leader
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans. Alphonse de Lamartine
character doe ridiculous
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous. Aesop
character watches action
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. A. A. Milne
character people independence
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. Abraham Lincoln
character democracies-have government
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. Alexander Hamilton
character men genius
The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not altogether useless, have far less virtue and efficacy than are commonly ascribed to them; and the want of them will never be with men of sound discernment a decisive objection to any plan which exhibits the leading characters of a good government.
character unique role-models
Playing Unique hasn’t changed how I feel about myself, but it has changed how I hold myself. Unique is so confident that I found myself [saying], ‘You need to be the role model that your character intends you to be.’ Alex Newell
character thinking play
I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again. Alex Pettyfer
character love-is interesting
What I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like People and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.
character years television
One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well. Aleksa Palladino
character men thinking
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor. Alessandro Nivola
character people acting
I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
character mean thinking
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters. Aleksandar Hemon
character thinking names
I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without names, because they will change my idea. No big egos. If I want egos - just mine. That is enough. Alejandro Jodorowsky
character free-will form
It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will. Alberto Moravia
character ignorance height
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance Albert Einstein
character men actors
Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. Alfred Molina
character fans remember
I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.
character personality events
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter. Alfred North Whitehead