Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

Plutarch

Character is inured habit.

Plutarch

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Plutarch

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Character is simply habit long continued.

Pia Zadora

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

Pierce Brosnan

It will be very hard to get out of Bond. It will be the pictures I do between Bonds that will color my career, that will give my career longevity after this franchise is over ... I will be stamped with this character for life.

Pierce Brosnan

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

Pierce Brosnan

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Phyllis Smith

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Phillip E. Johnson

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillips Brooks

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

Mickey Kaus

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the same—crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Mother Teresa

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

Jim Piddock

People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me.

Jim Lee

I really want to try to explore the characters from angles you've never seen and keep them classic and iconic.

Jim Rash

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

Jim Parsons

I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

Jim Parsons

My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

Joanna Kerns

I don't cry. Well, you know, I think coming from an acting background that's really helped me because I more than anyone know that an actor creates a character.

Joan Van Ark

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Joan Van Ark

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

Jim Rohn

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

Jim Rohn

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

Jim Rohn

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who you want to be.

George Matthew Adams

Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.

George Lopez

Shows should just be able to be shows without hyphenating their lead characters.

George Lucas

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

George Lucas

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.