Quotes about character
character made circumstances
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. John Stuart Mill
character thinking fearless
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.
character miracle historical
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
character years feet
To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9′, or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything. John Rhys-Davies
character government appreciate
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. James K. Polk
character destiny action
Thoughts become actions, actions become habits, habits become our character, and our character becomes our destiny. James Hunter
character dwelling-place civilization
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there. James Howard Kunstler
character night drug
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character. James Joyce
character passion weekend
I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them, and putting a lot of work into them, trying to bring the character to life, and to make interesting choices. It was one of the things to me that told me that I needed to change things up a little bit, because to me, I felt the passion was lacking from some of my performances. James Scott
character pride thinking
In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots. James Salter
character sap literature
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. James Russell Lowell
character good-luck best-of-luck
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
character angel heart
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
character break-through style
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.
character actors good-actors
Any good actor is a character actor. James Remar
character expression self
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition. James Q. Wilson
character pay crime
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
character differences stories
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. James Randi
character
It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much. James Gunn
character technology people
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
character race judging
Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics. James F. Amos
character bridges clothes
I was surprised by how much of it I was in [Tron: Legacy]. I thought the character was just going to register as a smaller figure because most of what I did was with a body double, and then I would do the stand-in with Jeff [Bridges] and he would be just wearing his regular clothes. James Frain
character evil guy
I'm not particularly an expert on the genre. Correct me if I'm wrong, but usually you see most of the super-villain in his villainous role. He's the Green Goblin, or whatever various bad guys in Batman, or something like that. It's the excessive, larger than life, cartoon-ish, costumed character that is the personification of evil and has to be destroyed.
character space focus
Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
character heart fans
Forney in Where the Heart Is has more fans than any other character Ive played.
character writing giving
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship. Laurence Sterne
character passion heart
The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.
character men thinking
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.
character men omission
The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.
character play order
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. Laura Carmichael
character thinking lead-characters
No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.
character play giving
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about Laura Dern
character reign
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential. Laura Hillenbrand