William Dobell Quotes

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

William Dobell

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• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Test

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Judge

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

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Fire

• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Character
  • Want
  • Cool

• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Hero
  • Romantic

• When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

  

  Tana French
  • World
  • Character
  • Doing

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Society
  • Morning

• One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • May
  • Character
  • Serious

• I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Different
  • Character

• The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

  

  Ann-Margret
  • Character

• The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character.

  

  Yamada Koun
  • Character
  • Purpose

• There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

  

  Suge Knight
  • Business
  • Way
  • Competition

• I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Pain
  • Fighter
  • Beat

• Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

  

  Leonid I. Brezhnev
  • May
  • Home
  • Today

• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Book
  • Feeling

• The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

  

  William Dobell
  • Character
  • Artist
  • Subjects