Quotes about character
character thinking choices
It is obvious when an actor has put work into prep and research and understanding their character, and they're making choices, because that's what happens when you take the time - or have the time - to really think about the material, but that only accounts for about 60% of what happens on the day. When you're in the moment, you throw it all away. Well, you don't throw it all away, but it's in you now, and everything is reactionary in that moment and you have to be honest and present and listening. Logan Lerman
character destiny people
For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith. Lyndon B. Johnson
character forget sometimes
I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character. Luke Evans
character missing psychopath
There's always a connection to be made whether you're playing a psychopath or whatever. It doesn't really matter; you've got to find this thing that you relate to with each character otherwise you're missing something.
character thinking sparks
There's a kind of chemical spark that comes sometimes with the character, that you don't even have to think about how she is reacting, you just let yourself go. You just let the character take you, instead of taking the character. Ludivine Sagnier
character swimming important
Swimming Pool was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.
character years two
Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.
character people remember
Actually there were [ in MacGyver] a lot of things about the original that focused on the character, but not too many people seem to remember that. Lucas Till
character years people
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react. Louise Penny
character order political
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. Louis D. Brandeis
character people flying
I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage. Loretta Swit
character roles developing
When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role. Lori Loughlin
character people liberty
I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw. Lord Byron
character toss window
It only takes 140 characters to toss ones character out the window. LZ Granderson
character law actors
Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this. M. Night Shyamalan
character frustration color
A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.
character play giving
Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow. Lorene Scafaria
character men personality
So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character. Lord Chesterfield
character men wisest-man
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.
character men france
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.
character hands greed
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.
character gambling play
Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.
character cleanliness clean
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
character son two
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.
character men greed
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
character pride gay
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.
character nations
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
character acting actors
I am a professional actor and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do. They may inadvertently do it, but it's because of the script, not the acting. Malcolm McDowell
character who-i-am opposites
I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am. Maiara Walsh
character men law
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does not change their character. The great doubt that presents itself to our mind is the result of the insufficiency of our intellect. Maimonides
character echoes violence
A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us. Mahatma Gandhi
character religion tests
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
character men given
A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.