Quotes about character
character past who-we-are
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past. Fred Rogers
character
There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, "Why don't you just go produce it yourself?". George Hamilton
character italian boys
I found a movie called "Light in the Piazza." I finally made the movie with Olivia de Havilland and myself, but initially there was no way I could make that movie, so I went to work on becoming that character. They told me they had an Italian [actor], and I said, "That's a Cuban boy!" His name was Tomas Milan. I thought that's the craziest thing I'd ever heard: They have a Cuban who's going to play an Italian, and I can't play it because I'm an American.
character play giving
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it? George Henry Lewes
character eye sacrifice
The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -- that without intelligence we should be brutes -- but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.
character men palaces
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
character assuming spare-time
No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character. George Harrison
character boys voice
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it. Harland Williams
character remember film
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters. Harmony Korine
character color ideas
I see things in a specific way. All the films are different. There are specific characters and scenes and locations and ideas. There are colors I want to see. There are movements and things ... The films are different, but the approach is the same.
character order practice
In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin. Harold B. Lee
character people feelings
There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there. Gus Van Sant
character cutting needs
Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.
character wife long
My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours. Graham Phillips
character people ifs
If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is. Graham Yost
character done different
I do always like to do things I haven't done before, so I'm always looking out for things in a different genre, or a different sort of character. Jim Broadbent
character hollywood-films lines
In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.
character men way
There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. Jim Butcher
character men people
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. I was not a murderer. I was not like Victor Sells. I was Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. I was a wizard. Wizards control their power. They don't let it control them. And wizards don't use magic to kill people. They use it to discover, to protect, to mend, to help. Not to destroy.
character mean play
I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary. Jessica Brown Findlay
character kids space
Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it. Jesse Tyler Ferguson
character careers borders
Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for. Jessica Biel
character play actors
As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing. Jessica Capshaw
character interesting want
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters. Jessica Alba
character order challenges
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence. H. G. Wells
character peaceful india
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.
character people care
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. Jean de la Bruyere
character men differences
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.
character people understanding
People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.
character men judging
Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]
character world moments
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
character men doe
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
character men
A man must be very inert to have no character at all.