Quotes about character
character slavery republican
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. James Madison
character home light
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property. As such, they are acted on by our laws, and have an interest in our laws. They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.
character numbers ethics
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
character passion government
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.
character government people
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.
character government liberty
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
character blessing government
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.
character gay boys
In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay. James Lecesne
character writing laughing
What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond). Joe Rogan
character play good-character
I'd like to play nothing but good characters. Joan Leslie
character writing thinking
Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public. Joan Didion
character ideas talking
I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.
character want complicated
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
character america ties
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use. Jim Woodring
character kids tools
Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools. Erik Qualman
character friday-night-lights trying
Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try. Eric Taylor
character trying
That's what character is, it's in the trying.
character goal laughing
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal. Eric Stonestreet
character stories actors
But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head. Eric Stoltz
character long historical
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
character who-i-am world
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed. Eric Thomas
character gay tv-shows
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. Eric McCormack
character grace crew
I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.
character stripes fierce
The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works. Eric Liu
character thinking opening-up
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively. Eric Fischl
character writing men
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. Eric Gill
character events deals
It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them. Eric Heiden
character play film
There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior. Emmanuelle Beart
character careers pretty-woman
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
character thinking ideas
Its always great when a director is just supportive of what youre doing. Theyre not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot. Emma Roberts
character giving teeth
I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!
character order play
You have to play the character in the best way you know how and do what you need to do in order to bring that character to life and not worry about the millions of people that you may be disappointing! Emma Stone
character heart thinking
As an actor, you have to just think about the truth of your character. You have to think about how to play the character in the way that you know it needs to be played in your heart and why you were hired.