Walter Inglis Anderson Quotes

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

Walter Inglis Anderson

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• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Know

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Mom

• The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• 2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Character
  • Party
  • Fight

• You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Character
  • You
  • Try

• I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Character
  • Day
  • Shoes

• I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Character

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• Only men of character are trusted.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Men
  • Character
  • Trusted

• We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Character
  • Respect
  • Marriage

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Style

• I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • She
  • Character
  • Passion

• No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Important
  • Character
  • Me

• The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Character
  • Car

• As a writer, it's a great narrative tool to have that character who is slightly detached but at the same time observant of his reality, because I think that's pretty much what being a writer is - being there, watching and internalizing.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

  

  Gena Rowlands
  • Wish

• Everybody burns out in this world; amateur, pro, it doesn't matter, they all burn out, they all get hurt, the OK guys and the not-OK guys both. That's why everybody takes out a little insurance. I've got some too, here at the bottom of the heap. That way, you manage to survive if you burn out. If you're all by yourself and don't belong anywhere, you go down once, and you're out. Finished.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hurt
  • Insurance
  • Survive

• I've had the big ups and the big downs.

  

  Juice Newton
  • Big
  • Downs
  • Ups

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Character
  • Happens
  • Thankful