Quotes about character
character might favour
A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character. Jane Austen
character evil mind
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.
character desire littles
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
character men handsome
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
character structure channeling
I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure. Jami Attenberg
character pie order
In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes Jason Biggs
character thinking quality
I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
character personality honor
I always try to honor a character by being honest and truthful to who they are, in spite of my own personality and beliefs. Jasmine Guy
character embrace used
Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again, he'd b a great candidate. Jason Alexander
character opportunity play
If you look at everything I've done, each character is so wildly different from each other, and that's what "The L Word" afforded me the opportunity to do. I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform. Janina Gavankar
character mean men
I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way. Janet Suzman
character ideas greek
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the writer, the ‘I’ of journalism is connected to the writer only in a tenuous way—the way, say, that Superman is connected to Clark Kent. The journalistic ‘I’ is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted, an ad hoc creation, like the chorus of Greek tragedy. He is an emblematic figure, an embodiment of the idea of the dispassionate observer of life. Janet Malcolm
character journalism invention
The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.
character thinking world
...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'... Janet Frame
character order giving
I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself. Janet Jackson
character names people
Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
character wrinkles giving
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril. Jane Seymour
character simple plot-lines
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again. Jane Yolen
character mean flow
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female. Jane Smiley
character views survival
My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.
character way certain
I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it. Charles Spurgeon
character hatred saving
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.
character writing rocks
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!
character play facts
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact. Alan Rickman
character play judging
If you judge the character, you cant play it.
character snape
I am the character you are not supposed to like.
character play together
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
character judging
So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.
character play judging
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
character hard-times careers
Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career. Alan Moore
character faces enormous
It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. Alan Jay Lerner
character
Rules cannot take the place of character. Alan Greenspan
character substitutes
But rules cannot substitute for character.