Quotes about character
character men hands
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper. Ralph Waldo Emerson
character talent sensuality
Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
character passion native-american
The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
character fate destiny
If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.
character levels dignity
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
character personality gentleman
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
character victory instant
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
character deeds-and-words purpose
Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
character self elegance
Self-command is the main elegance.
character self want
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
character men fruit
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
character men vision
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
character loss men
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
character faces facts
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
character house
Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
character careers choices
I'm a working actress able to make choices based on characters rather than what I 'should' do for my career. Selma Blair
character writing thinking
You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing. Scott M. Gimple
character done shock
Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.
character actors helpful
As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful. Scarlett Johansson
character play different
Everything you do is different, and you find different chords in every character that you play that strike true with you.
character mind pieces
Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.
character thinking people
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
character heart actors
Im a character actor at heart. Shuler Hensley
character unique play
I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a character that you really want to play for awhile. Shiri Appleby
character army people
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience. Shelby Foote
character june people
That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out. Shelby Lynne
character accents critical
The accent is always critical for me because it informs a lot of the character. Sharlto Copley
character actors dialect
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.
character acting rooms
I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.
character missing healthy
As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, "I know this character," and you don't do the work anymore. Then, there's something that you're going to miss. If you always stay hungry to learn more about your character, that's a healthy thing, while having a great sense of who she is, at the core. Shanola Hampton
character play actresses
I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is. Shannon Elizabeth
character independent nursing
I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling soft and I was nursing, but it was a character I'd never played before. That was a Paul Schrader script, with an up-and-coming Mexican director, named Alfonso Ulloa. That has Tim Roth and Paz Vega in it, and I enjoyed that, as well. Shannyn Sossamon
character cutting journey
In every take, that you're not sure of what they're going to cut and paste together and what the arc or the purpose or the intention of your character's journey will be in the story. You don't have control. Sometimes that's wonderful, and sometimes that can be scary.