Top character Quotes Collection - Page 4

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Image of Evan Rachel Wood
Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.
- Evan Rachel Wood
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Image of Evan Rachel Wood
The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.
- Evan Rachel Wood
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Image of Aryn Kyle
Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.
- Aryn Kyle
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Image of Earl Warren
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
- Earl Warren
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Image of Richard Preston
The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.
- Richard Preston
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Image of Lance Reddick
Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.
- Lance Reddick
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Image of Hugo Hamilton
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
- Hugo Hamilton
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Image of Henry Jenkins
When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to take off, you pitched a character because a good character could support multiple stories. and now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media.
- Henry Jenkins
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Image of Stendhal
A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
- Stendhal
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Image of James Howard Kunstler
The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.
- James Howard Kunstler
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Image of Warren G. Bennis
Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.
- Warren G. Bennis
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Image of Carl Bernstein
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.
- Carl Bernstein
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Image of Ezra Taft Benson
Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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Image of Jack Gantos
Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
- Jack Gantos
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Image of Michael Ondaatje
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
- Michael Ondaatje
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Image of Sam Savage
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
- Sam Savage
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
The life of a character should be an unbroken line of events and emotions, but a play only gives us a few moments on that line - we must create the rest to portray a convincing life.
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of Robin Quivers
It’s sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn’t Thelma and Louise prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
- Robin Quivers
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Image of David Brooks
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.
- David Brooks
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Image of David Brooks
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.
- David Brooks
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Image of Anthony Marra
In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.
- Anthony Marra
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Image of Alexander Shulgin
Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.
- Alexander Shulgin
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Image of Gavin de Becker
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.
- Gavin de Becker
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Image of Ron Rash
I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
- Ron Rash
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Image of Betty White
I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.
- Betty White
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Image of Matthew Quick
So I’m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind myself that all movie characters go through this sort of dark period before they find their happy ending.
- Matthew Quick
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Image of Tacitus
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.
- Tacitus
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Image of Henry Taylor
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.
- Henry Taylor
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Image of Robert Morgan
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
- Robert Morgan
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Image of Robert Morgan
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
- Robert Morgan
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Image of John Charles Polanyi
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.
- John Charles Polanyi
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Image of Jason Mraz
The measure of your character is not what you do when people are looking. It’s what you do when you think no one is looking.
- Jason Mraz
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Image of Campbell Scott
In one way they make the movie something you can handle because it's character driven and it's slightly off center. That's what's attractive, but it also has the potential of being cutesy and sappy. I am so uninterested in that.
- Campbell Scott
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Image of Eudora Welty
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?
- Eudora Welty
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Image of John H. Groberg
All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family-someway, somewhere, somehow-and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.
- John H. Groberg
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Image of Christopher Walken
I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.
- Christopher Walken
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Image of Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Image of Brendon Burchard
Beginning today, set an intention and a relentless focus on living your life as the greatest person you can be, in all situations. Demand that you demonstrate a strength of character in such a way that you find pride in who you are, and that others see you as a role model.
- Brendon Burchard
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Image of Willow Shields
Well I mean I think everybody was devastated because my last day on set was my death scene and so it was just sad altogether because my character was taking her last breath and I was kind of taking my last breath of air on set with everybody so it's definitely very sad.
- Willow Shields
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Image of Willow Shields
Gary Ross one of those directors which lets you do what you need to do to become your character - he lets you try to do everything on your own when you're acting. Then at some points he would say, "Let's try this," or "Let's try that." Most of the time he just kind of let me try to just become my character on my own and it worked out really well.
- Willow Shields
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Image of Arthur Miller
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
- Arthur Miller
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Image of Grant Morrison
Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.
- Grant Morrison
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Image of Cybill Shepherd
You have the morals of rabbit, the character of a slug, and the brain of a platypus.
- Cybill Shepherd
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Image of Donald Pleasence
It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.
- Donald Pleasence
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Image of Craig Groeschel
Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.
- Craig Groeschel
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Image of Muriel Spark
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
- Muriel Spark
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Image of Red Skelton
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
- Red Skelton
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Image of Carl Linnaeus
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
- Carl Linnaeus
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