The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.
~By Robert Aldrich ~
As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.
~By Tommy Franks ~
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.
~By Shelby Foote ~
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
~By Robert Duvall ~
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
~By Helen Rowland ~
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting.
~By Roger Mudd ~
I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.
~By Cassandra Peterson ~
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
~By John Lasseter ~
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
~By Sue Grafton ~
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
~By Aristotle ~
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
~By Anne Rice ~
You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.
~By Glenn Close ~
Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.
~By Michael Storm ~
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
~By Damon Albarn ~
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
~By Willard Scott ~
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
~By Katey Sagal ~
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
~By Michael Burgess ~
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
~By Aeschylus ~
Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
~By Corin Nemec ~
Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.
~By Anna Friel ~
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
~By Loretta Swit ~
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
~By Orlando Jones ~
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
~By Michelangelo Antonioni ~
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
~By Patrick Marber ~
I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.
~By Jackie Collins ~
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
~By Len Wein ~
The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.
~By Tom Berenger ~
I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
~By Ang Lee ~
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'
~By John Sayles ~
My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production.
~By Claire Danes ~
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
~By Ray Romano ~
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
~By Frances McDormand ~
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
~By Anna Friel ~
The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!
~By Michael Welch ~
When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.
~By Eva Green ~
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
~By Manuel Puig ~
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
~By Anne Rice ~
A man's character is his fate.
~By Heraclitus ~
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
I worked with Rocky Graziano and Rocky was certainly a character.
~By Dick Schaap ~
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
~By David Ogden Stiers ~
Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
~By Madeleine Stowe ~
On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.
~By Joe Slovo ~
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
~By Tommy Chong ~
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
~By David Brin ~
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
~By Phil Foglio ~
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
~By Major Taylor ~
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.
~By Ray Nitschke ~
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
~By Dick Schaap ~
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
~By Henri Bergson ~
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
~By William James ~
Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
~By Joel Coen ~
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
~By Paula Abdul ~
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
~By George P. Baker ~
Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.
~By Todd Rundgren ~
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.
~By Rod Steiger ~
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
~By Matt Groening ~
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