Quotes about character
character duty
When duty calls, that is when character counts. William Safire
character voice use
Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder. William S. Burroughs
character style prisoner
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
character people wish
The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population. William Lyon Mackenzie King
character men differences
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings. William Matthews
character giving anxiety
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
character people feelings
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... Virginia Woolf
character color stories
I use colors to bring fine points of story and character. Vincente Minnelli
character choices eclectic-style
Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route. Vincent D'Onofrio
character worry office
I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.
character actors able
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
character difficult behinds
The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
character giving actors
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
character writing unique
Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves. Wong Kar-wai
character boys needs
Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs. Woody Hayes
character healthy lost-everything
If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything. Woodrow Wilson
character lawyer used
I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.
character great-men duty
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
character order people
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love. Saint Augustine
character watches habit
Watch your habits, they determine your character. Winston Churchill
character firsts duty
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
character adversity people
My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity. Wilma Mankiller
character knowing people
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people. William Trevor
character ideas two
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters. Will Self
character mean race
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
character watches politics
Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day. Will Rogers
character interesting world
There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.
character people mentor
You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors. Wes Bentley
character want
An author's characters do what he wants them to do. W. E. B. Griffin
character data language
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. Zadie Smith
character past names
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.
character years
I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years. Zack Snyder
character opportunity thinking
I think up to this point, it's been difficult to suggest a world where Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman and others could exist in the same universe. That was one of the things I really wanted to try and get at. Not to mention, the amazing opportunity to bring those characters and have those characters tell an important story, their own story, within the confines of a film.