Quotes about character
character men names
God' is the name given to the most 'important' human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. 'God' is the question 'Is there something more important than, something besides, man? Laura Riding
character winning evil
The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition to good there are evil characters, but there are no good characters in opposition to evil. Evil is arguable, but good is not. Therefore the Devil always wins the argument.
character people used
It's funny, I used to say on 'That 70′s Show', you could really put us in any decade, and it was about the people and the characters and that we cared about each other. Laura Prepon
character heart play
In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
character perfect trying
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience. Laura Schlessinger
character wish should
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
character player reality
We don't condone it, but it happened. Is there a concern Yes, there is a concern. People are going to think what they think. But the reality is, I know the players we have, I know the character we have. We're recruiting the right people. Larry Coker
character issues people
It is amazing to me that we allow so many people with so little proven character to set our national policy on issues that will ultimately be paid for by the rest of us.
character smoking stories
But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options. Neil Marshall
character trying compromise
It's the one thing, a compromise I guess. On network it's the one thing you can't smoke on network. That's one of his character traits. We're working around that. We're trying to get aspects of it in there as much as possible. We'll see.
character pieces film
I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films. Neil LaBute
character thinking laughing
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes.
character play ego
I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions. Neil Simon
character writing years
I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.
character play childhood
A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.
character television-commercials consumers
The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products. (128) Neil Postman
character opportunity long
We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. Marco Rubio
character perfection lasts
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. Marcus Aurelius
character eye home
As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.
character tasks
Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
character soul mind
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
character hypocrite perfection
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
character men action
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
character perfect lasts
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
character actors roles
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing. Marcello Mastroianni
character age mules
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. Marcia Gay Harden
character play balls
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well. Rainn Wilson
character theatre transformation
I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
character thinking people
I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.
character misfits rough
I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.
character tv-shows actors
The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
character play judging
I can't play a character that I am judging. Rachelle Lefevre
character focus trying
With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.