Top character Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Susanna Kaysen
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.
- Susanna Kaysen
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Image of David Sedaris
As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
- David Sedaris
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Image of David Sedaris
Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.
- David Sedaris
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Image of Rebel Wilson
My American accent is really, really good. I started out in the theater, doing all different characters with all different accents. When I first came to America, I thought I would be playing American, all the time. It was just weird how it worked out that I played more international characters.
- Rebel Wilson
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Image of Matt Bomer
I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.
- Matt Bomer
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Image of Matt Bomer
I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott] Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him, as a writer, when he was at MGM. And, of course, I revisited the novel and the politics of MGM and the studio system at the time and familiarized myself with the world. There was a great deal of physical and literary work that went into it.
- Matt Bomer
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Image of Christopher Golden
Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action.
- Christopher Golden
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Image of Anthony Minghella
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.
- Anthony Minghella
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Image of N. T. Wright
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.
- N. T. Wright
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Image of William Ernest Hocking
What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion.
- William Ernest Hocking
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Image of Edward Thorndike
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character
- Edward Thorndike
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Image of Mark Russell
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.
- Mark Russell
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Image of Olive Schreiner
No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.
- Olive Schreiner
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Image of Brian K. Vaughan
Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.
- Brian K. Vaughan
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Image of Cindy Sherman
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
- Cindy Sherman
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Image of Jacqueline Carey
Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.
- Jacqueline Carey
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Image of Samuel Smiles
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
- Samuel Smiles
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Image of Samuel Smiles
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.
- Samuel Smiles
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Image of Amish Tripathi
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.
- Amish Tripathi
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Image of Nathanael Emmons
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
- Nathanael Emmons
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Image of Nathanael Emmons
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
- Nathanael Emmons
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Image of Ann Beattie
You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
- Ann Beattie
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Image of Thomas Bernhard
We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
- Thomas Bernhard
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Image of Joe Murray
I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.
- Joe Murray
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Image of Rupert Murdoch
For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
- Rupert Murdoch
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Image of Kerstin Gier
If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.
- Kerstin Gier
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Image of Shannon Hale
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
- Shannon Hale
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Image of Mark Wahlberg
I prepare mentally and physically for everything I do. I like having to do both, because you submerge yourself into the character and the world and you live it until it's over.
- Mark Wahlberg
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Image of Robin Wasserman
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.
- Robin Wasserman
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Image of Dorothea Brande
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.
- Dorothea Brande
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Image of Stella Adler
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.
- Stella Adler
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Image of Josh Lanyon
I know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you -- they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.
- Josh Lanyon
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Image of Henryk Sienkiewicz
Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Image of Daniel Pinchbeck
My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities.
- Daniel Pinchbeck
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Image of Joaquin Phoenix
The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.
- Joaquin Phoenix
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Image of Eiji Yoshikawa
Great character is forged through hardships.
- Eiji Yoshikawa
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Image of John Wooden
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.
- John Wooden
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Image of Michael Rapaport
When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.
- Michael Rapaport
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Image of Cynthia Voigt
Rebellion is necessary for development of character.
- Cynthia Voigt
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Image of Denise Mina
Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.
- Denise Mina
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Image of Henry Rollins
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
- Henry Rollins
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Image of Laura Schlessinger
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.
- Laura Schlessinger
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Image of Stephen Lang
The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.
- Stephen Lang
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Image of Stephen Lang
What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.
- Stephen Lang
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Image of J.R. Miller
The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.
- J.R. Miller
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Image of Vivienne Westwood
My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
- Vivienne Westwood
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Image of Chloe Grace Moretz
I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a human being we tend to make judgements when we find out information about people and situations. In order to bring a character to life, though, I find that I cannot judge her or I won't be true to her.
- Chloe Grace Moretz
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Image of Chloe Grace Moretz
On social media, like on Instagram and stuff that I post, and the way that I view myself, and portray myself on there, that's definitely a much more personalized take. I'm not collaborating with people to make that, it's my own social media platform in which I'm - it's not a character, it's just me.
- Chloe Grace Moretz
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Image of Steve Perry
Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.
- Steve Perry
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