Quotes about character
character judgement trying
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson
character people leader
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
character stories television
I really love the process, with stage, of rehearsal, you get to create a character, and you have a beginning, a middle, and an end of story. And in television, you don't. Sasha Alexander
character mind stories
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. Sarah Zettel
character mind brain
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work. Sarah Wayne Callies
character men play
I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours. Sarah Michelle Gellar
character creative-juices interesting
You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.
character pages television
Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me. Yvonne Strahovski
character people actors
My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
character done world
I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.
character color race
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. Yves Klein
character years anxiety
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem. Yves Saint Laurent
character people excellence
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence. William H. Macy
character producers
I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.
character play want
If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
character tricks believer
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
characteristics chaucer intensity
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. William Hazlitt
character opportunity years
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon. William Devane
character community going-away
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away. William Davis
character evil attendance
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character. William E. Gladstone
character men years
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character. Wendell Phillips
character culture answers
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers. Wendell Berry
character mind stories
By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character, Walter Murch
character reality thinking
I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel. Walter Mosley
character writing blood
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.
character laughing make-me-laugh
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. W. Somerset Maugham
character men average
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
character personality quality
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
character personality culture
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
character yield harmony
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
character enough knows
You can never know enough about your characters
character writing giving
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
character names common-sense
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.