Quotes about character
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.
character hands important
The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.
character reality men
So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for Man of Steel, and a different director is going to be doing Man of Steel. That’s the reality. So all you can do is to give it not only your best, but your vision on what this character is, when you become one with that character.
character littles bits
I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge . Zach Galifianakis
character interesting shadow
The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow. Zachary Quinto
character approach
I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
character careers acting
I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis. Zachary Levi
character play has-beens
Deadpool would have been an amazing character to play, but Ryan Reynolds already did that.
character passion actors
As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.
character remember unconscious
I can't remember. . . . My character was sort of unconscious for it. Zac Efron
character men world
Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.
character writing play
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters. Zach Braff
character garden way
Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
character mean player
I've always preferred Marvel over DC. I just relate to their characters better. I mean look at Wolverine, at first he was just a bit player in an ensemble cast. Now he's the only reason people read X-Men. Just like me and Scrubs.
character thinking chinese
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you. Zhang Ziyi
character persistence race
Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint. Zig Ziglar
character gay doctors
It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements
character men play
I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.
character would-be looks
You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really just the same actor playing both characters in the scene? I knew this would be the best route, but I just wasn't comfortable dressing as a woman, so I had to hire other actors.
character pages television
Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me. Yvonne Strahovski