Quotes about character
character training suffering
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault. Sam Harris
character angel soul
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire. Saint Patrick
character feet people
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do. S. I. Hayakawa
character focus development
Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are. Russell M. Nelson
character men people
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again. Ronald Reagan
character air water
Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.
character play trying
I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters. Romany Malco
character answers different
Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually. Roger Federer
character costumes huge
For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character. Sam Riley
character scary trying
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it. Sam Raimi
character shed
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. Sam Neill
character talking silence
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie. Sam Mendes
character goes-on lifestyle
The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
character feet age
My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character. Sally Hawkins
character shoes acting
I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
character opportunity emotional
If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you. Sally Field
character eye opportunity
I find that’s one of the great things about acting-you have the opportunity to stand in somebody else’s shoes. Each character faces a dilemma in her life, and as an actor you’re able to step into that character’s skin, look through her eyes. You leave transformed, a different person, because once you live a little bit of someone’s life, it changes you.
character thinking years
For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.
character opportunity play
The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
character trying actors
I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.
character thinking stuff
I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character. Sacha Baron Cohen
character successful reflection
A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership. S. Truett Cathy
character shoes boots
I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. Ruth Rendell
character cutting insult
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
character actors turns
Every actor turns everything round to their character. Ruth Wilson
character complicated
I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.
character eye fire
The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens. Rumi
character envy way
On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.
character envy defects
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
character expectations optimism
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
character knowing acting
Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character. Ron Silver
character goal world
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. Ron Rash
character focus trying
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.