Quotes about character
character quality determine
The quality of your thoughts determines the quality of your personal character.
character littles stuff
Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers. Goran Visnjic
character years challenges
Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge Gordon Brown
character thinking ideas
One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right. Gerard Butler
character stuff relate
I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.
character excellence littles
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.] Horace
character lasts consistent
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
character successful growth
You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face. Herman Edwards
character fortune
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. Herbie Hancock
character men radicalism
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. Herbert Spencer
character men gone
That immaculate manliness we feel within ourselves, so far within us, that it remains intact though all the outer character seem gone; bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man. Herman Melville
character men skulls
Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.
character fiction towns
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
character men names
The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.
character men egypt
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.
character benches court
A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench. Herb Kohl
character men dumb
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone. Henry David Thoreau
character men clothes
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
character years next-day
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to disappear, and go into his hole like the seventeen-year locust, in an ever-shabby coat, though finer than the farmer's best, yet never dressed.... He especially is the creature of the occasion. He empties both his pockets and his character into the stream, and swims in such a day. He dearly loves the social slush. There is no reserve of soberness in him.
character soul shadow
When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?
character men giving
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.
character gambling gold
The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious.
character poetry style
Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
character curves focus
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.
character play voice
I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down. Jenny Slate
character views point-of-view
And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it. Jeffrey Jones
character movement want
Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.
character keys trustworthiness
Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness. Jeffrey Gitomer
character fighting self
Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism. Jeffrey Eugenides
character writing way
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
character emotion feels
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
character writing house
If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out what kind of things they might be interested in or have in their house, I don't really do it that way. I try to feel what it would be like to be inside this person, to be them.
character writing acting
There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.