Quotes about character
character rights support
We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties. James Monroe
character journey people
That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people. James McAvoy
character thinking conflict
Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
character information littles
I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.
character bizarre
To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it, James Marsden
character ridiculous sincerity
The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
character years ideas
The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with just a different trademark character is a bore. James Mangold
character temptation battle
Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation. James Martineau
character passion order
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. James Madison
character law finals
[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.
character men human-nature
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
character slavery republican
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
character home light
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property. As such, they are acted on by our laws, and have an interest in our laws. They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.
character numbers ethics
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
character passion government
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.
character government people
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty and to the Constitution which is its palladium [protection], ... a Government which watches over ... the equal interdict [prohibition] against encroachments and compacts between religion and the state.
character government liberty
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
character blessing government
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.
character gay boys
In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay. James Lecesne
character writing laughing
What people like are things to laugh at. Funny shows. It's all in the execution, the writing and the characters, not the setting. And the writing and the execution and the characters are GREAT on (Everybody Loves Raymond). Joe Rogan
character play good-character
I'd like to play nothing but good characters. Joan Leslie
character writing thinking
Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public. Joan Didion
character ideas talking
I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.
character want complicated
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
character america ties
When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use. Jim Woodring
character kids tools
Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools. Erik Qualman
character friday-night-lights trying
Listen to me. I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn't say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That's what character is. It's in the try. Eric Taylor
character trying
That's what character is, it's in the trying.
character goal laughing
The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal. Eric Stonestreet
character stories actors
But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head. Eric Stoltz
character long historical
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
character who-i-am world
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed. Eric Thomas
character gay tv-shows
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. Eric McCormack