Edward Wilmot Blyden Quotes

If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

Edward Wilmot Blyden

• Character
• Personality
• Pleasure
• Surrender
• Charm

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• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Difference

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

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Loved

• I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Like
  • Genius

• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Character
  • True
  • Day

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • May
  • Character
  • Me

• When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Character
  • You
  • Film

• I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Concerned
  • Else

• The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Character
  • Best
  • Crime

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• Your character, Apollon Zamp, is marred by a certain paltriness of spirit, a diffused universal distrust which I truly deplore.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Character

• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • She
  • Character
  • Powerful

• The Secretariat horse character reveals his true identity, and it happens to be Bob Newhart.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Character
  • True
  • Identity

• Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Personality

• It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet about them, you might say, 'I don't really necessarily want to hang out with this guy' or 'I would never be this kind of guy in my life.' I think it's part of an actor's job to say, 'Maybe you could be.'

  

  Jason Ritter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wit

• If a wig is funny when it's two feet tall, why not make it three feet tall? Or ten?

  

  Chris March
  • Why
  • Funny

• If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.

  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Pleasure