Quotes about character
character devil influence
The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils. J. C. Ryle
character men views
Those who confine God's love exclusively to the elect appear to me to take a narrow and contracted view of God's character and attributes....I have long come to the conclusion that men may be more systematic in their statements than the Bible, and may be led into grave error by idolatrous veneration of a system
character doe doctrine
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.
character heart tests
Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.
character passion years
All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree. Isaac Newton
character disappear-completely prejudice
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth. Irving Langmuir
character guilty looking witnesses
Character witnesses are for when you're guilty and are looking for lenient sentencing. Charles Polk
characters darker fill license rein selves taken
Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors. James Frain
characters generally haven
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists. Darin Strauss
characters eternity great symbols types
Characters of the great Apocalypse,/ The types and symbols of Eternity,/ Of first, and last, and midst, and without end. William Wordsworth
character sought
Character is to be sought more than intellect. Sathya Baba
character crisis
Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited.
character nobody
Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking. J. C. Watts
character hand issue
Character has always been a very important issue with me, ... (Character and chemistry) go hand in hand for me.
character good
Character development is character development, and it's one of the things that we're pretty good at.
character coaches court exemplary role
Character counts. Our coaches must be exemplary role models, on the court and off.
character force personal worth
Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything Walt Whitman
character coaches great means named talks wrestler wrestling
Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life. Chris Adams
characters exactly grew indians lived pretend sort understand
I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do. Aneurin Barnard
character
I always try to make each character my own.
character perfect
His character and my character were kind of the perfect combination to get laughs. Sean Connery
characters deeper grown return
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning. Anthony Marra
character middle stale
But yeah, I started to get stale around the middle of the second-to-last year. I didn't really know what to do with the character anymore. John Goodman
character instead sue trying
But if it was me, I'd be doing everything I could to get back and play and show everyone the character I have ... instead of trying to sue everyone. Markus Naslund
characters emotional happens reality reasons relationships
But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens. Graeme Murphy
characters followed
because there are a lot of characters that aren't followed through. Nick Nolte
character play trying
I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them. Harrison Ford
character opportunity luck
I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.
character age growing
There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.
character years interesting
I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.
character opportunity fiction
Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].
character cutting cowboy
American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened to me. George thought my character should have a crew cut, but I wasn't happy with that idea. I'd always had pretty long hair back then - in college, particularly - so I told George my character should wear a cowboy hat. George thought about it and he remembered a bunch of guys from Modesto, California, who cruised around, like my character, and wore cowboy hats, so it turned out that it actually fit the movie.
character opportunity thinking
There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story.