Quotes about character
character doe circumstances
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. William James
character roots excellence
The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
character criticism respect-me
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. William Gilmore Simms
character technique stories
Technique is of less interest than character and story. William Friedkin
character giving decision
Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions. William Gibson
character names way
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
character thinking special
A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character. Will Estes
character situation
I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. Will Gluck
character want props
I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.
character play kind
I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play. Will Friedle
character play people
Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.
character too-much comedy
When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything. Will Ferrell
character intellectual inseparable
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable. Whitfield Diffie
character interesting people
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you. Whitley Strieber
character important doe
The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.
character pressure handle
Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming. Sarah Palin
character helping excitement
But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better. Sarah Chalke
character thinking different
I would like to think that Im more different from my character than I am.
character writing stories
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17. Sara Zarr
character research might
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
character stories events
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
character thinking scripts
When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this. Saoirse Ronan
character want known
One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.
character appreciate roles
I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.
character parent moral
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler Samuel Morse
character hands change-for-the-better
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse--either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other. Samuel Smiles
character saving lost
If character be irrecoverably lost, then indeed there will be nothing left worth saving.
character exercise men
The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.
character educator practicals
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
character individual great-hope
The great hope of society is in individual character William Ellery Channing
character people important
I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters. Willem Dafoe
character cartoon want
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
character play trying
I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.