Quotes about character
character men law
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters. Henry David Thoreau
character men honor
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. H. L. Mencken
character democracy ridiculous
The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.
character x-files shows
I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters. Jill Scott
character goal lucky
I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing. Jessica Chastain
character play voice
I like things where I can do a physical transformation, and I love accents and voices, and I'm never going to play the same character twice.
character thinking play
To a female superhero her sexiness is not the most important thing about her, it's her mind, her spirit, and when I look at that character that to me is an example of characters that I like to play and I think it does a great thing for women.
character journey men
I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man’s story. The great directors I’ve talked to, I’ve said listen, I don’t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that’s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, because it’s just like being a prop.
character commitment passion
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work. Jessica Lange
character theater grows
I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance. Jerry Hall
character animal animated-series
I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail. Jeremy Bulloch
character looks flattery
Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service. Jeremy Collier
character pleasure source
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? Jeremy Bentham
character fire trials
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. Estelle
character luck cant
You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. Estelle Parsons
character men names
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names. Esha Gupta
character looks film
I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
character inheritance care
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment. Ernst Haeckel
character kids thinking
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple. Ernest Hemingway
character simple play
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. Eva Green
character dames wonderful
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame Ethel Merman
character creative moral
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. Etty Hillesum
character writing heart
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high. Eudora Welty
character insightful trying
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
character writing doe
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
character writing cities
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
character writing plot
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
character somewhere-else plot
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?...
character two minorities
Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities. Esai Morales
character successful science
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot). Erwin Chargaff
character choices temptation
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. Erwin W. Lutzer
character looks development
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
character shapes your-future
The shape of your character is the shape of your future. Erwin McManus