Adolph Rupp Quotes

“Success is the best builder of character.”

Adolph Rupp

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• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Success
  • Girl
  • Moral

• The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Knowledge

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  

  Mae West
  • Important
  • Success
  • Personality

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Success
  • Television

• Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Real
  • Money
  • Success

• Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • Character
  • Wings

• There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of character, to leave Asad behind.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Good
  • Character
  • Father

• It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Said

• You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  

  Dan Millman
  • People
  • Success
  • Fear

• She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

  

  Mae West
  • She
  • Success
  • Girl

• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

  

  Andre Benjamin
  • Success
  • Balance

• I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Character

• I think, if I had a big flop, that probably it would have ended the string at Disney, but it didn't! Every film was a success.

  

  Dean Jones
  • Success
  • Disney

• In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

  

  David Gerrold
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Oil is seldom found where it is most needed, and seldom most needed where it is found.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Found
  • Needed
  • Oil

• “Success is the best builder of character.”

  

  Adolph Rupp
  • Character
  • Success
  • Builder