Quotes about character
character interesting stories
I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. Jo Nesbo
character civilization leader
Now, being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be President. But it does reveal character. This is the kind of character that civilizations from the beginning of history have sought in their leaders. Fred Thompson
character player want
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character. Frank Lampard
character littles sides
I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves. Madchen Amick
character different-faces comedy
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face. Mackenzie Crook
character men judging
The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him. Madame de Stael
character careful reasoning
The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.
character reputation situation
The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
character long left
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
character what-matters matter
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
character may strongest
Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
character angel men
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read. Lynn Flewelling
character needs narrative
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. Haruki Murakami
character dark thinking
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then he says, "It's not as if our lives are divided simply into light and dark. There's shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does. And to acquire a healthy intelligence takes a certain amount of time and effort. I don't think you have a particularly dark character.
character thinking order
Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.
character cat sheep
Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
character ideas parent
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink. Harlan Coben
character comforting noble
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. Gustave Flaubert
character feel-better thinking
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea. Greer Garson
character
I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day. Greg Berlanti
character mean writing
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. Gilbert K. Chesterton
character rogues fool
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue. John Dryden
character farce action
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
character home interesting
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit. John Mayer
characteristics surroundings mankind
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. John Maynard Keynes
character use language
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. John M. Ford
character play
You have to play your characters, not like them. John Malkovich
character creative advice
It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field. John Lloyd Young
character scripts insight
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
character personality-flaws
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. John Lubbock
character endurance tests
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
character religion treasure
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. John Locke
character army past
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.