Quotes about character
character rights important
The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent. James Monroe
character rights support
We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
character journey people
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people. James McAvoy
character thinking conflict
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
character information littles
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.
character bizarre
To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it, James Marsden
character ridiculous sincerity
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
character years ideas
The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore. James Mangold
character temptation battle
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation. James Martineau
character passion order
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. James Madison
character law finals
[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.
character men human-nature
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
character slavery republican
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
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 patriotic men
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters. Samuel Adams
character pounds stories
If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it. Taylor Lautner
character responsibility action
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
character ideas acting
I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with. Stacy Keach
character looks driven
I look for characters who are emotionally driven.
character past imagination
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little. Stella Adler
character wings long
I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set. Sophie Turner
character my-best-friend weakness
I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them. Sophie Kinsella
character achievement done
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. Thomas Hardy
character writing oklahoma
I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. Tim Blake Nelson
character strange
I always liked strange characters. Tim Burton
character interesting challenges
It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.
character actors wells
I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters. Thomas Lennon
character thinking stories
I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.