Quotes about character
character differences confusion
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance. Erich Fromm
character successful battle
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive solution.
character simple order
A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.
character people tumult
tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult. Erica Jong
character writing thinking
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
character cutting body
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. George Eliot
character self mind
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?
character sometimes trauma
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
character men circles
I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity. Geoffrey Rush
character way treatment
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
character emotional depth
You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into. Gary Ross
character giving intuition
That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them. Gary Oldman
character play years
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
character clothes important
And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.
character play cry
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
character silence loud
I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
character color sock
You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
character people thumbs
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good. Gabriel Byrne
character mean actors
I'm really, really happy with what I do for a living. I mean, that's what I consider work, like being on set, bringing a character to life and, you know, working with other actors and directors and stuff. Gabourey Sidibe
character years voice
Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because when I started I was just doing characters and impressions and that was it. Gabriel Iglesias
character sides enough
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? Francoise Sagan
character writing finding-the-one
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
character littles intrigue
If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you. Frank Auerbach
character important clicks
Obviously, for me, that person has got to have a beauty to them - and it's not always physical beauty. It's important that I love someone's character and that I click with it. Christopher Bailey
character space atoms
Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each building and each town is ultimately made out of these patterns in the space, and out of nothing else; they [patterns in the space] are the atoms and molecules from which a building or a town is made. Christopher Alexander
character patterns building
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
character self-confidence years
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse. Christoph Waltz
character play mind
The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life Christian Slater
character followers literature
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
character giving events
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
character men expression
The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.
character giving proud
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
character trying use
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.