Character Quotes
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
Emil Cioran -
A man with no enemies is a man with no character.
Paul Newman
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I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.
Michael B. Jordan -
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.
Stephen Sondheim -
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touches him is why we all want to be him. But it also makes him a sort of superman who in the end you don't really relate to.
Robert Wade -
Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you
Mother Teresa -
Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
Stephen Covey -
No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
Seneca the Younger
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Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
Judy Blume -
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 -
I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.
William Brinkley -
I'm the opposite of the character in my novel: I've become more right-wing as I've got older.
Nicholas Blincoe -
I think back to last year and, I don't want to say it was easy, but we made it look easy. We weren't challenged in difficult situations. This year, we have been, and it's built our character.
Bob Stoops -
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune.
Herbie Hancock