Quotes about character
character men law
[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. Edward Gibbon
character discovery honor
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.
character birth elevation
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.
character years two
Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.
character ideas history
To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most of the useful and respectable, qualifications. The character in which both the one and the other should be united and harmonised would seem to constitute the most perfect idea of human nature.
character passion history
But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper and natural level, and will resume those passions that seem the most adapted to its present condition.
character men soul
Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment. Edith Stein
character eye thinking
When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando. Eddie Marsan
character gay interesting
I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
character thinking play
I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
character men play
I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.
character boys play
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.
character play psychosis
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character. Eddie Izzard
character needs may
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth. Ed Asner
character men path
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. Earl Warren
character greatness quality
Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances. Dean Acheson
character animal talking
Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger universe and done an Orpheus Descending movie there. We didn't have that kind of resource. So, we said, this time, "If not that, this time, then what is it? What does this new movie look like?" Quickly, just in talking about it very simply with Vin [Diesel] in his kitchen, we decided on a survival, left-for-dead story, where Riddick could, as a character, reclaim the animal side. David Twohy
character angel growth
If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth. David Viscott
character years play
I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic. David Walton
character writing battle
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human. David Henry Hwang
character adversity class
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago? David Horowitz
character names squash
Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling.
character natural profound result simplicity
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought. William Hazlitt
character hindrance simplicity subtlety
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect. Christopher Morley
character felt heart loss
She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart . . . Jane Austen
character hold
She's a character and she can hold her own with anybody. She's a competitor. John Goodwin
characters effect figure figures gravity historical holmes massive might sherlock words
Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical characters - these figures have real weight. They might be just made out of words and paper, but their effect in the world can be massive, if they've got the right kind of mass, the right kind of gravity and momentum. Alan Moore
character people
Most people that know me know I'm a person of character and integrity. I'm all about kids.
character german-physicist great intellect people
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. Albert Einstein
characters prefer transform
Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while. Melissa Ordway
characters charts entirely firmly ground ink proof remains rooted scope series solid spent tale terms
Much ink has been spent on the tale of getting the show to the screen, ... The proof is in the product, however, and we say without reservation it is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition, yet remains rooted firmly in the fundamentals of solid characters and well-told stories.
characters directly exactly five hours nor screen structure totally translate writers
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story. Gayle Forman
character clearly men
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe