Quotes about character
character law office
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here. John Ortberg
character people cartoon
People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character. John Oliver
character
Success is good for the character. John Mortimer
character gay play
I can't tell you why I keep getting asked to play gay characters, but I never really considered 'gay' as an adjective, as a playable thing. Maybe it's an element of the character, but it just describes a preference. John Michael Higgins
character unnecessary force
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. John Desmond Bernal
character interest
What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests. John Dewey
character men special
To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.
character thinking actors
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. John Candy
character
You can escape into a character.
character might association
There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed. John Astin
character play bears
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. Johan Huizinga
character play indulge-in
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. Joel Edgerton
character interesting quality
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.
character larger-than-life boyhood
I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
character years challenges
I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing. Joel McHale
character stories looks
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested. Joel Kinnaman
character thinking superhero
I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.
character looks kind
I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.
character people different
You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.
character interesting trying
You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.
character always-trying challenges
You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.
character thinking people
I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash,' after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.
character novel
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like. Joe Klein
character thinking plot
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. Joe Hill
character blow people
You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do. Joan Severance
character color alive
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. Joan Miro
character fighting boxing
You have to be like a sponge and use what you can and how it relates because TV is fluid. Things change on a week-to-week basis. Those are the things that I do with every character. If I'm involved in a boxing movie, I go see fights and learn about boxing. It's part of what we do. Jimmy Smits
character adversity nobility
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character. George Ade
character soul utterance
The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
character mean quality
When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.
character liberty weight
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
character epic thrones
I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off. Geoff Johns
character league justice
We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it a big story. The goal for Aquaman was to position him as an A-list character; position him as an important member of the Justice League.